AMC Forum 30 & IMAX
Sterling Heights · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 26/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 126 m² of lit picture, with 19% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
44681 Mound Rd., Sterling Heights, MI, 48314 · Open in maps ↗
IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 15.5 m × 10.1 m (157 m²)
- Picture area
- 126 m² — 19% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.53:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 259
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2005
- 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 — where we could check, 100 venues listed as xenon had been upgraded. Treat the score as indicative.
⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.5m 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 26
⌷ 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 Forum 30 & IMAX · 15.5×10.1 m · picture 126 m², 19% 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 · 157 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
- 157 m²
- Picture
- 126 m²
- Screen used
- 81%
1.9 m of this screen — 19% 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
Michigan Science Center
Detroit · 18 mi away
You'd get 219% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Dolby Cinema at AMC Star Great Lakes 25
Auburn Hills · 10.0 mi away
Dolby Cinema at AMC Star Gratiot 21
Clinton Township · 7.5 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Also in Sterling Heights
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.
Showtimes
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