Cinéma Banque Scotia Montréal IMAX
Montreal · CanadaSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room A, 82/100 — a genuinely strong large-format room, 434 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. The 70mm print is confirmed by IMAX's own engagement list. Data read 5 November 2026.
Largest Canadian screen on the Odyssey 70mm list (81.7 x 61.4 ft), on Rue Sainte-Catherine.
Excellent large-format presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX 15/70mm Film
- Screen
- 24.9 m × 18.7 m (466 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.33:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 on a 15/70mm print · 1.90:1 digital
- 15/70mm film
- Yes — confirmed, ran The Odyssey in 70mm
- Sound
- IMAX 6-channel
- Seats
- 340
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1999
- Operator
- Cineplex
Why IQ 82
434 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX 15/70mm Film · film and digital projectors, each on its own source
1.43:1 · on a 15/70mm print
IMAX 6-channel · as published
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3Cinéma Banque Scotia Montréal IMAX · 24.9×18.7 m · picture 434 m², 7% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 466 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
Only on a 15/70mm print here — the digital projector caps at 1.90, so the same film shows smaller on a digital night.
- Screen
- 466 m²
- Picture
- 434 m²
- Screen used
- 93%
1.3 m of this screen's height — 7% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.43 showing.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- one source, listed twice — these copy each other
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- 15/70mm film
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · IMAX's Odyssey 70mm engagement list ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
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