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AMC Concord Mills 24 & IMAX

Concord · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 38/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 114 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.

8421 Concord Mills Blvd., Concord, NC, 28027 · Open in maps ↗

D
IQ 38

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Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen
14.7 m × 8.2 m (121 m²)
Screen shape
1.79:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
No
Sound
Not published
Seats
270
Screen type
Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened
2009
Operator

⚠ LIEMAX — at 14.7m 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 38

Screen size6/38

114 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

1234

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 Concord Mills 24 & IMAX · 14.7×8.2 m · picture 114 m², 6% never lit
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 121 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

dark
Screen
121 m²
Picture
114 m²
Screen used
94%

0.5 m of this screen's height — 6% 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 source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions
one source, listed twice — these copy each other
Projector
single source
Operating status
verified open

Sources disagree

The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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