Cineworld Birmingham Broad Street IMAX
Birmingham · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 32/100 — a modest premium screen, 170 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
Screen 6 of the 2000-built ex-UGC Broad Street multiplex was converted to IMAX Digital in October 2012, with no laser upgrade since.
Broad Street, City Centre , Birmingham, B15 1DA · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 18.3 m × 9.3 m (170 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.97:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 6-channel
- Seats
- 353
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2012
- 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 32
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 Birmingham Broad Street IMAX · 18.3×9.3 m
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 170 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 170 m²
- Picture
- 170 m²
- Screen used
- 100%
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Vue Manchester Printworks IMAX
Manchester · 71 mi away
You'd get 191% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineworld Sheffield IMAX
Sheffield · 67 mi away
You'd get 82% more screen.
ODEON Luxe Birmingham Broadway Plaza
Birmingham · 3.1 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•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
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- 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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