Regal Gulf Coast Town Center 16 & IMAX
Fort Myers · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 40/100 — a modest premium screen, 140 m² of lit picture, with 12% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 16.3 m × 9.7 m (158 m²)
- Picture area
- 140 m² — 12% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.68:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 395
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2008
- Operator
Why IQ 40
140 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
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 Gulf Coast Town Center 16 & IMAX · 16.3×9.7 m · picture 140 m², 12% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 158 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
- 158 m²
- Picture
- 140 m²
- Screen used
- 88%
1.1 m of this screen's height — 12% 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.
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.
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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 xenon; we publish laseron 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.
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