AMC Sarasota 12 & IMAX

Sarasota · 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, 130 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 26provisional

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Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 15.7 m × 8.5 m (133 m²)
Screen shape: 1.85:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 261
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2011
Operator

⚠ This venue has closed (2024). ABC7 WWSB confirmed the Sarasota Square Mall theatre ceased operations permanently on 31 October 2024.

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, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.7m 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

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

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

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 Sarasota 12 & IMAX · 15.7×8.5 m · picture 130 m², 3% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 133 m² total)

What you actually see

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Screen: 133 m²
Picture: 130 m²
Screen used: 97%

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified closed (2024)

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

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