Cineworld Glasgow Silverburn IMAX
Glasgow · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 57/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 306 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
Scotland's first IMAX with Laser (single-laser CoLa), a 468-seat auditorium that opened to the public in October 2022.
Silverburn Shopping Centre, 763 Barrhead Rd., Glasgow, G53 6AG · Open in maps ↗
Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 24.1 m × 13.27 m (320 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.82:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 468
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2022
- Operator
- Cineworld
Why IQ 57
306 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
IMAX Commercial Laser · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
IMAX 12-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 Glasgow Silverburn IMAX · 24.1×13.3 m · picture 306 m², 4% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
6 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 320 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 320 m²
- Picture
- 306 m²
- Screen used
- 96%
0.6 m of this screen's height — 4% 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
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
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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
- 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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