Edwards Temecula Stadium 15 & IMAX
Temecula · United StatesPublished figures
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 39/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 126 m² of lit picture, with 20% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 15.5 m × 10.2 m (158 m²)
- Picture area
- 126 m² — 20% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.52:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 325
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2009
- 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 15.5m 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 39
⌷ 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
- 3Edwards Temecula Stadium 15 & IMAX · 15.5×10.2 m · picture 126 m², 20% 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 · 158 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 158 m²
- Picture
- 126 m²
- Screen used
- 80%
2.0 m of this screen — 20% 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
Regal Edwards Ontario Palace IMAX
Ontario · 44 mi away
You'd get 250% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Regal Irvine Spectrum IMAX
Irvine · 35 mi away
You'd get 249% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Fleet Science Center
Balboa Park · 55 mi away
You'd get 301% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Temecula · All of United States
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Where this comes from
Published figuresWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- not established
- 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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