AMC Orchards 12 & IMAX

Westminster · 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, 128 m² of lit picture, with 18% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.

We don't have a link to this cinema's own page yet.

Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 26provisional

IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 15.6 m × 10 m (156 m²)
Picture area: 128 m² — 18% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.56:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 272
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2008
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 15.6m 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

Screen size7/38

Projection11/36

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 Orchards 12 & IMAX · 15.6×10 m · picture 128 m², 18% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

Compare against any screen →

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

Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters

IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are

dark

Screen: 156 m²
Picture: 128 m²
Screen used: 82%

1.8 m of this screen — 18% 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

Cinemark Carefree Circle IMAX

Colorado Springs · 69 mi away

You'd get 120% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

Dolby Cinema at AMC Arapahoe Crossing 16

Aurora · 21 mi away

Dolby Cinema at AMC Flatiron Crossing 14

Broomfield · 8.3 mi away

Better screens within 75 mi

•Where to next

Every premium screen in Westminster · All of United States

Also in Westminster

Elsewhere in United States

Where this comes from

Single source

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

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified open

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

Showtimes

Checking listings…