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Apple Cinemas Providence Place IMAX

Providence · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room A, 81/100 — a genuinely strong large-format room, 427 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.

New England's only IMAX 70mm film venue, formerly the Feinstein IMAX at Providence Place.

10 Providence Place, Providence, RI, 02903 · Open in maps ↗

A
IQ 81

Excellent large-format presentation.

Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX 15/70mm Film
Screen
24.7 m × 18.6 m (459 m²)
Screen shape
1.33:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
Yes — confirmed, ran The Odyssey in 70mm
Sound
IMAX 6-channel
Seats
424
Screen type
Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened
2000
Operator
Apple Cinemas

Why IQ 81

Screen size23/38
Projection36/36
Full 1.43 frame18/18
Sound4/8

How big, really?

1234

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
  • 3Apple Cinemas Providence Place IMAX · 24.7×18.6 m · picture 427 m², 7% never lit
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

8 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 459 m² total)

What you actually see

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

Only on a 15/70mm print here — the digital projector caps at 1.90, so the same film shows smaller on a digital night.

dark
Screen
459
Picture
427
Screen used
93%

1.3 m of this screen — 7% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.43 showing.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions
single source
  • · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
Projector
single source
15/70mm film
single source
Operating status
verified open

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

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