Harkins Arizona Mills 25 IMAX
Tempe · United StatesConfirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room A, 81/100 — a genuinely strong large-format room, 416 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
Arizona's only IMAX 70mm film venue, an 80 x 60 ft 1.43 screen at Arizona Mills.
5000 Arizona Mills Circle, Tempe, AZ, 85282 · Open in maps ↗
Excellent large-format presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX 15/70mm Film
- Screen
- 24.4 m × 18.3 m (447 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
- 412
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1998
- Operator
- Harkins
Why IQ 81
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
- 3Harkins Arizona Mills 25 IMAX · 24.4×18.3 m · picture 416 m², 7% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 447 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.
- Screen
- 447 m²
- Picture
- 416 m²
- Screen used
- 93%
1.2 m of this screen — 7% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.43 showing.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
•Where to next
Also in Tempe
Where this comes from
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
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- 15/70mm film
- confirmed by 3 sources
- · IMAX's Odyssey 70mm engagement list ↗
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
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