6 premium screens
Istanbul
There are 6 premium screens in Istanbul, IMAX. The biggest picture is at Cinemaximum Akasya Acibadem LG & IMAX — 257 m² of lit screen, 8% more than the next room.
No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Istanbul crops to 1.90 or wider, so a film shot with IMAX cameras will be missing about a quarter of its picture wherever you see it.
Worth knowing before you book: Cinemaximum IstinyePark LG & IMAX 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.
4 of 6 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. No projector here is yet confirmed by two independent sources, so treat the scores as indicative. One room is digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.
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.
- World Cinezone Marmara ForumIMAX Commercial Lasersize unpublishedC
- Cinemaximum Akasya Acibadem LG & IMAXProjector not established22.1 × 12.4 m257 m² lit pictureC
- Cinemaximum Marmara Park LG & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon21.3 × 11.9 m239 m² lit pictureC
- Cinemaximum Hilltown & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon18.3 × 9.6 m176 m² lit pictureD
- Paribu Cineverse İstinyePark & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenonsize unpublishedD
- Cinemaximum IstinyePark LG & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon15.9 × 10 m133 m² lit pictureD
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →