AMC Garden State 16 & IMAX

Paramus · United StatesConfirmed ×2

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 43/100 — a modest premium screen, 198 m² of lit picture, with 10% of the screen never lit. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.

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IQ 43

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 19.4 m × 11.4 m (221 m²)
Picture area: 198 m² — 10% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.70:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 324
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2009
Operator

Why IQ 43

Screen size11/38

Projection24/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound0/8

⌷ 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 Garden State 16 & IMAX · 19.4×11.4 m · picture 198 m², 10% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 221 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 221 m²
Picture: 198 m²
Screen used: 90%

1.2 m of this screen — 10% 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

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You'd get 220% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

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Where this comes from

Confirmed ×2

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

Screen dimensions: confirmed by 2 sources
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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