Cineworld Chichester IMAX

Chichester · United KingdomSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 29/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 112 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.

Screen 5 of the 2003-built ten-screen Chichester Gate multiplex was retrofitted to IMAX Digital in October 2014 and remains dual-2K xenon.

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Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 14.6 m × 8.1 m (118 m²)
Screen shape: 1.80:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: IMAX 6-channel
Seats: Not published
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2014
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, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

⚠ LIEMAX — at 14.6m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.

Why IQ 29

Screen size6/38

112 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound4/8

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
3Cineworld Chichester IMAX · 14.6×8.1 m · picture 112 m², 5% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 118 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 118 m²
Picture: 112 m²
Screen used: 95%

0.4 m of this screen's height — 5% of it — stays dark for an 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

BFI IMAX

London · 55 mi away

You'd get 340% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum

London · 53 mi away

You'd get 231% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX

London · 55 mi away

You'd get 250% more screen.

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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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