3 premium screens
Belfast
There are 3 premium screens in Belfast, across IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX. The biggest picture is at Cineworld Belfast IMAX — 329 m² of lit screen.
No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Belfast 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: Cineworld Belfast IMAX never lights 30% 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.
Choosing in Belfast
Screen you will be sold and never see
One room here advertises more screen than any film will light. Cineworld Belfast IMAX leaves 30% dark — 144 m² of fabric that never carries a picture.
How much of this is confirmed
Projector confirmed by two independent sources: 0 of 3. Single source: 1. No source: 2.
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →