Cineworld Belfast IMAX
Belfast · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 58/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 329 m² of lit picture, with 30% of the screen never lit. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
13-screen Cineworld at the Odyssey opened December 2021 with Northern Ireland's first IMAX with Laser (single-laser CoLa, 12-channel sound).
Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 25 m × 18.9 m (472 m²)
- Picture area
- 329 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
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- Not published
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2021
- Operator
- Cineworld
Why IQ 58
⌷ 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
- 3Cineworld Belfast IMAX · 25×18.9 m · picture 329 m², 30% 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 · 472 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 472 m²
- Picture
- 329 m²
- Screen used
- 70%
5.7 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
Size confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · regional research ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- 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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