United Kingdom

There are 209 premium screens in United Kingdom, across IMAX, Chain premium screen, Cineworld Superscreen and Vue EPIC. The biggest picture is at Vue Manchester Printworks IMAX — 484 m² of lit screen, with almost nothing in it against BFI IMAX.

3 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. 3 of them ran 15/70mm prints of The Odyssey, which puts up about a third more picture than the digital showing in the same room.

Worth knowing before you book: Cineworld Plymouth IMAX 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.

65 of 209 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. 6 of 209 have a projector confirmed by two independent sources. 4 rooms are digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.