Beijing U-Town Bona & IMAX
Beijing · ChinaSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 25/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 118 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
North Sanfeng Lane, Chaowai Street, No.2, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020 · Open in maps ↗
IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 15 m × 8.2 m (123 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.83:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- Not published
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2014
- Operator
The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since — where we could check, 100 venues listed as xenon had been upgraded. Treat the score as indicative.
⚠ LIEMAX — at 15m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.
Why IQ 25
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3Beijing U-Town Bona & IMAX · 15×8.2 m · picture 118 m², 4% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 123 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 123 m²
- Picture
- 118 m²
- Screen used
- 96%
0.3 m of this screen — 4% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
China National Film Museum IMAX
Beijing · 6.5 mi away
You'd get 361% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Emperor Cinemas Beijing Taikoo Li Sanlitun
Beijing · 2.8 mi away
Hoyts Cinemas Beijing Hopson One
Beijing · 2.8 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Beijing · All of China
Also in Beijing
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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