32 premium screens
London
There are 32 premium screens in London, across IMAX, Dolby Cinema, Cineworld Superscreen and Vue EPIC. The biggest picture is at BFI IMAX — 473 m² of lit screen, 25% 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. 2 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: Vue London Westfield Shepherd's Bush - VueXtreme never lights 25% 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.
15 of 32 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. 1 of 32 has a projector confirmed by two independent sources.
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.
- BFI IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser1.4326 × 20 m473 m² lit pictureS
- IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science MuseumIMAX GT Dual Laser1.4323.3 × 16.8 m380 m² lit pictureS
- Cineworld Leicester Square IMAXIMAX GT Dual Laser26.5 × 15.6 m370 m² lit pictureA
- ODEON Luxe Leicester SquareDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- ODEON Luxe West EndDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- The Cinema in the Power StationDolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- ODEON Luxe Swiss Cottage IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser17.6 × 8.9 m157 m² lit pictureC
- ODEON Greenwich IMAXIMAX Laser XT15.1 × 7.76 m117 m² lit pictureD
- ODEON Kingston IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser15.2 × 7.23 m110 m² lit pictureD
- ODEON Luxe Uxbridge IMAXIMAX Laser XT15.24 × 7.43 m113 m² lit pictureD
- Cineworld London The O2 Greenwich - SuperscreenCineworld Superscreen22 × 9.2 m202 m² lit pictureC
- Cineworld London Leicester Square - SuperscreenCineworld Superscreen20.5 × 11 m176 m² lit pictureC
- Cineworld London Wandsworth - SuperscreenCineworld Superscreensize unpublishedC
- Cineworld London Hounslow - SuperscreenCineworld Superscreensize unpublishedC
- Vue West End (Leicester Square) - EPICVue EPICsize unpublishedC
- ODEON Luxe Lee Valley - iSenseODEON iSensesize unpublishedC
- ODEON Luxe Acton - iSenseODEON iSensesize unpublishedC
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rankedCineworld London - Enfield4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - Feltham4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - HounslowScreenXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - Leicester Square4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - The O2 Greenwich4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - The O2 GreenwichScreenXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - Wandsworth4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - WandsworthScreenXsize unpublished - not
rankedCineworld London - Wembley4DXsize unpublished - Vue London Westfield Shepherd's Bush - VueXtremeVueXtreme18 × 10 m136 m² lit pictureC
- Vue London Westfield Stratford City - VueXtremeVueXtreme18 × 10 m136 m² lit pictureC
- Vue London Islington (Angel Central) - EPICVue EPIC16 × 7 m107 m² lit pictureC
- Vue London Finchley Road (O2 Centre) - VueXtremeVueXtreme16 × 7 m107 m² lit pictureC
- Cineworld London Enfield IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon17.2 × 8.9 m153 m² lit pictureD
- ODEON Wimbledon IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon15.2 × 7.9 m120 m² lit pictureD
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →