Regal Edwards Fresno & IMAX

Fresno, California · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 32/100 — a modest premium screen, 239 m² of lit picture, with 30% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.

250 E. Paseo del Centro, Fresno, California.

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250 E. Paseo del Centro, Fresno, California, USA, 93270-4321 · Open in maps ↗

Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 32provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: Not established
Screen: 21.3 m × 16.1 m (343 m²)
Picture area: 239 m² — 30% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.32:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 273
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2000
Operator

⚠ A 2021 industry listing recorded a 15/70mm film projector here, and we could find nothing to confirm or refute it. Most multiplex film systems were removed years ago; many museum ones still run. Rather than guess either way, this venue is scored as if the projector were unknown — so if it does still run film, the score below understates it substantially.

Why IQ 32

Screen size13/38

239 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

digital, generation never established · 2 independent sources

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

⌷ 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 · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3Regal Edwards Fresno & IMAX · 21.3×16.1 m · picture 239 m², 30% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

3 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 3 up · 343 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 343 m²
Picture: 239 m²
Screen used: 70%

4.9 m of this screen's height — 30% of it — stays dark for an 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.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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