Cinesphere, Ontario Place IMAX
Toronto · CanadaConfirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 55/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 403 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
World's first permanent IMAX theatre (1971) and an Oppenheimer 70mm venue, but not on the Odyssey list amid the Ontario Place redevelopment.
Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Not established
- Screen
- 24 m × 18 m (432 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.33:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 — full IMAX frame
- 15/70mm film
- Recorded in 2021, unconfirmed
- Sound
- IMAX 6-channel
- Seats
- 614
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1971
- Operator
- Independent
⚠ A 2021 industry listing recorded a 15/70mm film projector here, and we could find nothing to confirm or refute it. Most multiplex film systems were removed years ago; many museum ones still run. Rather than guess either way, this venue is scored as if the projector were unknown — so if it does still run film, the score below understates it substantially.
Why IQ 55
403 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
digital, generation never established · film and digital projectors, each on its own source
1.43:1 · the widest frame this room can show
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
- 3Cinesphere, Ontario Place · 24×18.0 m · picture 403 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 · 432 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
The full IMAX frame — the tallest picture that exists
- Screen
- 432 m²
- Picture
- 403 m²
- Screen used
- 93%
1.2 m of this screen's height — 7% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.43 showing.
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Where this comes from
Confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · Wikipedia
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- 15/70mm film
- unconfirmed
- Operating status
- verified temporarily-closed (2022)
Showtimes
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