AMC Clearview Palace 12 & IMAX
Metairie · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 25/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 117 m² of lit picture, with 14% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 14.9 m × 9.1 m (136 m²)
- Picture area
- 117 m² — 14% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.64:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 235
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2012
- Operator
The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.
⚠ LIEMAX — at 14.9m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.
Why IQ 25
117 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
no sound specification published
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3AMC Clearview Palace 12 & IMAX · 14.9×9.1 m · picture 117 m², 14% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 136 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 136 m²
- Picture
- 117 m²
- Screen used
- 86%
1.3 m of this screen's height — 14% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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