Regal Transit Center Stadium 18 & IMAX
Williamsville · United StatesSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 33/100 — a modest premium screen, 255 m² of lit picture, with 28% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Digital — generation not established
- Screen
- 22 m × 16.1 m (354 m²)
- Picture area
- 255 m² — 28% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.37:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 260
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1999
- Operator
We went looking for this one. ⚠ The 2021 listing records a xenon projector here, but this screen is 22m wide and IMAX specified that system for screens no wider than 21.3 m. Nobody has stated the projector directly, so we don't assert one — the score treats it as unknown rather than assuming the older, dimmer system. This isn't pending — the operator doesn't publish a lamp type and neither does IMAX, so unless the venue says otherwise, nobody publishes it.
Why IQ 33
255 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
digital, generation never established · recorded 2021 · 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 Transit Center Stadium 18 & IMAX · 22×16.1 m · picture 255 m², 28% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
6 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 354 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
- 354 m²
- Picture
- 255 m²
- Screen used
- 72%
4.5 m of this screen's height — 28% 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
Scotiabank Theatre Toronto IMAX
Toronto · 59 mi away
You'd get 23% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan IMAX
Vaughan · 71 mi away
You'd get real 15/70mm film.
Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga IMAX
Mississauga · 65 mi away
You'd get real 15/70mm film.
Better screens within 75 mi
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Where this comes from
Size confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · local press ↗
- 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.
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