AMC Del Amo 18 & IMAX

Torrance · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 39/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 133 m² of lit picture, with 15% of the screen never lit. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.

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IQ 39

Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 15.9 m × 9.8 m (156 m²)
Picture area: 133 m² — 15% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.62:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 248
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2008
Operator

⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.9m 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 39

Screen size7/38

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

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · 2 independent sources

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

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 Del Amo 18 & IMAX · 15.9×9.8 m · picture 133 m², 15% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 156 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 156 m²
Picture: 133 m²
Screen used: 85%

1.4 m of this screen's height — 15% 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.

Worth travelling for?

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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: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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