Cineworld Crawley IMAX

Crawley · United KingdomSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 34/100 — a modest premium screen, 211 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.

One of Cineworld's first-wave UK IMAX retrofits, converted to IMAX Digital around early 2012 with no laser upgrade.

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Unit 1-Crawley Leisure Park, London Road, Crawley, RH10 8LR · Open in maps ↗

~IQ 34provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 20 m × 11.2 m (224 m²)
Screen shape: 1.79:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: IMAX 6-channel
Seats: 456
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, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 34

Screen size11/38

211 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 Crawley IMAX · 20×11.2 m · picture 211 m², 6% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 224 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 224 m²
Picture: 211 m²
Screen used: 94%

0.7 m of this screen's height — 6% 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 · 27 mi away

You'd get 132% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum

London · 26 mi away

You'd get 75% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX

London · 27 mi away

You'd get 85% 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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