A real theater would use just an acoustically transparent screen I think. This would be the whole front wall.
I still am torn. I am looking at a 2.35:1 screen, and if I did that, I would love to have thick curtains there to "mask" the right and left side of the screen when not watching that wide of material, so that would mean just an AT screen and the wall is just there to allow the bass traps to work, or I build the entire thing acoustically transparent, and then put the Axioms out front where they can be seen (and in front of the curtains).
Of course, my wife hates the look of my SVS tube sub, so she also likes the idea of hiding it behind the screen.
Decisions, decisions...
