RC Reading Movies 11 & IMAX
Reading · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 32/100 — a modest premium screen, 239 m² of lit picture, with 12% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
30 North Second Street, Reading, PA, 19601 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 21.3 m × 12.8 m (273 m²)
- Picture area
- 239 m² — 12% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.66:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 340
- 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.
Why IQ 32
⌷ 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
- 3RC Reading Movies 11 & IMAX · 21.3×12.8 m · picture 239 m², 12% 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 · 273 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 273 m²
- Picture
- 239 m²
- Screen used
- 88%
1.6 m of this screen — 12% 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 UA King of Prussia IMAX
King of Prussia · 33 mi away
You'd get 30% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Dolby Cinema at AMC Neshaminy 24
Bensalem · 53 mi away
Dolby Cinema at AMC Center Valley 16
Center Valley · 32 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Also in Reading
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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