Australia

There are 28 premium screens in Australia, across IMAX, Chain premium screen, Reading Cinemas TITAN LUXE and Vmax. The biggest picture is at IMAX Melbourne — 716 m² of lit screen, 22% more than the next room.

2 rooms can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame, which is the thing worth travelling for if a film was shot with IMAX cameras. The rest crop to 1.90. IMAX Melbourne ran a 15/70mm print of The Odyssey — the only one in Australia.

Worth knowing before you book: IMAX Sydney (Darling Harbour) never lights 16% of its screen. The fabric is bigger than the picture, which is why the ranking here is by lit area rather than by the dimensions cinemas advertise.

6 of 28 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. 2 of 28 have a projector confirmed by two independent sources.