AMC Southpoint 17 & IMAX
Durham · United StatesSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 42/100 — a modest premium screen, 192 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
8030 Renaissance Parkway, Durham, NC, 27713 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 19.1 m × 10.5 m (201 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.82:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 322
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2011
- Operator
Why IQ 42
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 Southpoint 17 & IMAX · 19.1×10.5 m · picture 192 m², 4% 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 · 201 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 201 m²
- Picture
- 192 m²
- Screen used
- 96%
0.4 m of this screen — 4% 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
Dolby Cinema at AMC Southpoint 17
Durham · 0.1 mi away
Dolby Cinema at AMC Fayetteville 14
Fayetteville · 57 mi away
Dolby Cinema at AMC Dine-In Holly Springs 9
Holly Springs · 17 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Also in Durham
Where this comes from
Size confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- Operating status
- verified open
Sources disagree
The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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