Cinépolis IMAX Perisur
Mexico City · MexicoPublished figures
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 46/100 — a modest premium screen, 255 m² of lit picture, with 36% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
Mexico's biggest IMAX auditorium (~22x18m former 15/70 giant screen), the country's flagship laser IMAX.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 22 m × 18 m (396 m²)
- Picture area
- 255 m² — 36% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.22:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 271
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2013
- Operator
- Cinépolis
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 46
⌷ 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
- 3Cinépolis IMAX Perisur · 22×18 m · picture 255 m², 36% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 396 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 396 m²
- Picture
- 255 m²
- Screen used
- 64%
6.4 m of this screen — 36% 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
Every premium screen in Mexico City · All of Mexico
Also in Mexico City
Where this comes from
Published figuresWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- not established
- 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.
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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