Emagine Batavia - Super EMX Emagine Super EMAX / Super EMX
Batavia · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this Emagine Super EMAX / Super EMX (and standard EMX) room C, 45/100 — a modest premium screen, 359 m² of lit picture, with 24% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
Illinois, USA. THE LARGEST CHAIN-BRANDED PLF SCREEN IN THE UNITED STATES: 96ft x 53ft (29.3m x 16.2m), billed as Illinois' largest movie screen and 'an NBA court flipped on its side'. Christie 4K laser, 70-channel Dolby Atmos, 414 heated recliners including cuddle chairs. Opened 11 Jul 2023 with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning. 550 N Randall Rd - the building was the former Randall 15 IMAX, bought and rebuilt by Emagine in spring 2020, so this is a case of a chain PLF REPLACING an IMAX with something larger. Dimensions verified via NBC Chicago. Coordinates not published.
Map position approximate (city centre)
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- 4K Laser(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 29.3 m × 16.2 m (475 m²)
- Picture area
- 359 m² — 24% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.81:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 2.39:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 414
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2023
- Operator
- Emagine Entertainment
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.
Why IQ 45
⌷ 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
- 3Emagine Batavia - Super EMX · 29.3×16.2 m · picture 359 m², 24% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
6 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 475 m² total)
What you actually see
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IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 475 m²
- Picture
- 452 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.8 m of this screen — 5% 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
Cinemark Tinseltown Rochester IMAX
Rochester · 27 mi away
You'd get real 15/70mm film.
Better screens within 75 mi
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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