Cineworld Basildon IMAX

Basildon · United KingdomSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 33/100 — a modest premium screen, 176 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.

The 337-seat IMAX auditorium was added by Empire Cinemas in June 2015 a year before Cineworld took over the Festival Leisure Park site; remains IMAX Digital xenon.

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~IQ 33provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 18.3 m × 9.6 m (176 m²)
Screen shape: 1.91:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: IMAX 6-channel
Seats: 337
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2015
Operator: Cineworld

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 33

Screen size10/38

Projection11/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound4/8

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
3Cineworld Basildon IMAX · 18.3×9.6 m
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 176 m² total)

What you actually see

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Screen: 176 m²
Picture: 176 m²
Screen used: 100%

Worth travelling for?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

BFI IMAX

London · 25 mi away

You'd get 196% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum

London · 28 mi away

You'd get 123% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX

London · 26 mi away

You'd get 135% more screen.

Better screens within 75 mi

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Where this comes from

Single source

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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.

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