SilverCity Ancaster Cinemas & IMAX
Ancaster · CanadaSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 43/100 — a modest premium screen, 202 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
771 Golf Links Road, Ancaster, L9G 3K9 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Laser XT
- Screen
- 19.6 m × 10.8 m (212 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.81:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 421
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2011
- Operator
Why IQ 43
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
- 3SilverCity Ancaster Cinemas & IMAX · 19.6×10.8 m · picture 202 m², 4% 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 · 212 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 212 m²
- Picture
- 202 m²
- Screen used
- 96%
0.5 m of this screen — 4% 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
Scotiabank Theatre Toronto IMAX
Toronto · 41 mi away
You'd get 106% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan IMAX
Vaughan · 44 mi away
You'd get 66% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga IMAX
Mississauga · 29 mi away
You'd get 64% more screen, 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
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · 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.
Showtimes
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