AMC Eastridge 15 & IMAX
San Jose · 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, 131 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
2190 Eastridge Loop, San Jose, CA, 95122 · Open in maps ↗
Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 15.8 m × 9.1 m (144 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.74:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 298
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2008
- Operator
⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.8m 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
131 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
no sound specification published
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 Eastridge 15 & IMAX · 15.8×9.1 m · picture 131 m², 9% 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 · 144 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 144 m²
- Picture
- 131 m²
- Screen used
- 91%
0.8 m of this screen's height — 9% 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?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
AMC Metreon 16 IMAX
San Francisco · 45 mi away
You'd get 377% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Regal Hacienda Crossings IMAX
Dublin · 26 mi away
You'd get 175% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Tech Interactive
San Jose · 4.2 mi away
You'd get 412% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
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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
- 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.
Showtimes
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