PACCAR IMAX Theatre
Seattle · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 28/100 — at the bottom of the premium range, 165 m² of lit picture, with 11% of the screen never lit. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
Map position approximate (city centre)
IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Digital Xenon
- Screen
- 17.7 m × 10.5 m (186 m²)
- Picture area
- 165 m² — 11% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.69:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 290
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1979
- Operator
Why IQ 28
⌷ 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
- 3PACCAR IMAX Theatre · 17.7×10.5 m · picture 165 m², 11% 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 · 186 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 186 m²
- Picture
- 165 m²
- Screen used
- 89%
1.2 m of this screen — 11% 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
Royal British Columbia Museum
Victoria · 74 mi away
You'd get 158% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Boeing IMAX Theatre
Seattle · 1.5 mi away
You'd get 138% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Dolby Cinema at AMC Kent Station 14
Kent · 16 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Seattle · All of United States
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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
- Operating status
- verified open
Sources disagree
The 2021 industry listing records this venue as film; we publish xenonon 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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