AMC Rockaway 16 & IMAX

Rockaway · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 40/100 — a modest premium screen, 143 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.

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363 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rockaway, NJ, 07866 · Open in maps ↗

IQ 40

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 16.5 m × 9.2 m (152 m²)
Screen shape: 1.79:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 291
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2009
Operator

Why IQ 40

Screen size8/38

143 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · 2 independent sources

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

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 Rockaway 16 & IMAX · 16.5×9.2 m · picture 143 m², 6% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 152 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 152 m²
Picture: 143 m²
Screen used: 94%

0.5 m of this screen's height — 6% 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 Lincoln Square 13 IMAX

New York · 32 mi away

You'd get 367% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

Regal UA King of Prussia IMAX

King of Prussia · 72 mi away

You'd get 134% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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

Screen dimensions: one source, listed twice — these copy each other
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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