Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk & IMAX

North York · CanadaSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 30/100 — at the bottom of the premium range, 211 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.

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5095 Yonge Street, North York, M2N 6Z4 · Open in maps ↗

~IQ 30provisional

Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 20 m × 11.1 m (222 m²)
Screen shape: 1.80:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 353
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2012
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, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 30

Screen size11/38

211 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification 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
3Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk & IMAX · 20×11.1 m · picture 211 m², 5% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 222 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 222 m²
Picture: 211 m²
Screen used: 95%

0.6 m of this screen's height — 5% of it — stays dark for an 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

Scotiabank Theatre Toronto IMAX

Toronto · 8.4 mi away

You'd get 96% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.

Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan IMAX

Vaughan · 6.6 mi away

You'd get 58% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga IMAX

Mississauga · 17 mi away

You'd get 56% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

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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: single source
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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