AMC Del Amo 18 & IMAX
Torrance · United StatesConfirmed ×2
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 21 September 2026.
3525 Carson St. Suite 73, Torrance, CA, 90503 · Open in maps ↗
IMAX 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
⌷ 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 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20 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 · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 156 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 156 m²
- Picture
- 133 m²
- Screen used
- 85%
1.4 m of this screen — 15% of it — stays dark for a 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?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Regal Edwards Ontario Palace IMAX
Ontario · 48 mi away
You'd get 255% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Regal Irvine Spectrum IMAX
Irvine · 37 mi away
You'd get 254% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood IMAX
Universal City · 21 mi away
You'd get 174% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Better screens within 75 mi
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Where this comes from
Confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
Showtimes
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