Cinema City IMAX Lodz

Lodz · PolandSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 49/100 — a modest premium screen, 308 m² of lit picture, with 30% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.

IMAX with Laser (next-generation projector, multi-channel sound); opened 8 Sep 2024. Framed as 'IMAX returns to Lodz' - a new IMAX auditorium at the site rather than a first-ever.

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CH Manufaktura, ul. Drewnowska 58, Lodz, 91-002 · Open in maps ↗

~IQ 49provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser(as of 2021)
Screen: 24.2 m × 18.3 m (443 m²)
Picture area: 308 m² — 30% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.32:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 399
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2006
Operator: Cinema City

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.

Why IQ 49

Screen size17/38

Projection24/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound0/8

⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.

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
3Cinema City IMAX Lodz · 24.2×18.3 m · picture 308 m², 30% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

8 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 443 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 443 m²
Picture: 308 m²
Screen used: 70%

5.6 m of this screen — 30% 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

Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.

•Where to next

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Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

Sources disagree

The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.

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