46 premium screens
Shanghai
There are 46 premium screens in Shanghai, across Dolby Cinema, IMAX and CINITY. The biggest picture is at IMAX 3D Theater — 413 m² of lit screen, 20% more than the next room.
One room — IMAX 3D Theater — can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Everywhere else in town crops to 1.90, which is roughly a quarter less picture on a film shot for it.
Worth knowing before you book: IMAX, Peace Cinema never lights 35% 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.
Ranked
Scored on the picture each room actually lights, not the fabric it is painted on. A tilde means the projector rests on a single dated source.
- CGV (Shanghai Pudong Sanlin Inreach)Dolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- CGV Shanghai Fudi Vitality CityDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- CGV Shanghai Jingyao QiantanDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- CGV Shanghai Nanxiang MixCDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- CGV Shanghai Songjiang MixCDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Palace Cinema Shanghai North Bund Raffles CityDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Red Star Macalline (Shanghai WuZhongLu)Dolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Shanghai Film Art Centre (SHO)Dolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Wanda Cinema (Shanghai Darongcheng)Dolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Wanda Cinema Shanghai CITIC Pacific Wanda PlazaDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Wanda Cinema Shanghai Minhang Zhuanqiao Wanda PlazaDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Wanda Cinema Shanghai Wujiaochang Wanda PlazaDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Shanghai Daning IMIX Park Hoyts & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser25.88 × 13.47 m345 m² lit pictureB
- IMAX 3D TheaterProjector not established1.4324.3 × 18.3 m413 m² lit pictureB
- Shanghai Wanda 165IMAX Commercial Laser23.4 × 13.5 m288 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Jiangqiao Wanda & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser21.3 × 12 m239 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Wanda International Cinema IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser21.3 × 12 m239 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Jinshan Wanda & IMAXIMAX Laser XT21.4 × 12.1 m241 m² lit pictureC
- Wanda Shanghai Baoshan & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser19 × 10.5 m190 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Zhoupu Wanda & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser18.9 × 10.4 m188 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Broadway Cinema & IMAXIMAX Commercial Lasersize unpublishedC
- Shanghai Livat (Huiju) IMAXIMAX Commercial Lasersize unpublishedC
- Shanghai Luyue Tiandi IMAXIMAX Commercial Lasersize unpublishedC
- Shanghai Qianwan MEGA IMAXIMAX Commercial Lasersize unpublishedC
- Jinyi Cinema & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser16.6 × 8.2 m128 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Stellar IMAX CinemaProjector not established24.4 × 13.9 m313 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Baoshan Longfor OmnijoiProjector not established23.2 × 13.3 m283 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai White Magnolia Plaza CGV & IMAXProjector not established22.6 × 13 m269 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Songjiang Wanda & IMAXProjector not established22.4 × 12.6 m264 m² lit pictureC
- Shanghai Daning Aurora & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon20.2 × 11.4 m215 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai LCM Palace & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon20.2 × 11.2 m215 m² lit pictureD
- IMAX, Peace CinemaIMAX Digital Xenon19.9 × 16 m208 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Longsheng Wanda & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon19.8 × 10.9 m206 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Chuansha SFC BailianIMAX Digital Xenon19.5 × 11.1 m200 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Qibao Vanke CGV & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon19.2 × 10.8 m194 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Fengxian Powerlong Hengdian & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon19.1 × 10.8 m192 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Jiuting Bestar & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon18.7 × 10.4 m184 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Baoshan Stellar & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon18.5 × 10.3 m180 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Jinqiao The Mall SFC & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon18.4 × 10.4 m178 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Bingo SFC & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon18.3 × 10.3 m176 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Hongqiao Lingkong & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon16.8 × 9.2 m149 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Xuhui Greenland Binjiang SFC & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenonsize unpublishedD
- Shanghai Yonghua & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon15.2 × 7.9 m119 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai BFC Bona Palace & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon14.8 × 8.3 m115 m² lit pictureD
- Shanghai Yaohan SFC Bailian & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon14 × 7 m93 m² lit pictureD
- Wanda Cinema WujiaochangCINITYsize unpublishedC
Choosing in Shanghai
If you are choosing tonight
It is IMAX 3D Theater against Shanghai Daning IMIX Park Hoyts & IMAX. 413 m² of lit picture against 345 m², 20% more — IMAX 15/70mm Film against IMAX Commercial Laser.
IMAX 3D Theater also shows the full 1.43:1 frame, so it is the bigger picture and the taller one. There is no trade-off to weigh in Shanghai.
Screen you will be sold and never see
One room here advertises more screen than any film will light. IMAX, Peace Cinema leaves 35% dark — 110 m² of fabric that never carries a picture.
How much of this is confirmed
Projector confirmed by two independent sources: 1 of 46. Single source: 29. No source: 16. Generation never established: 4.
No longer here
2 rooms have closed. They are kept because they were real.
- Shanghai Emperior UA & IMAXclosed 2022
- IMAX Dome Theaterclosed
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →