Cineworld Leeds White Rose IMAX

Leeds · United KingdomSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 46/100 — a modest premium screen, 303 m² of lit picture, with 10% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.

Purpose-built 428-seat IMAX with a Cineworld-confirmed 24m x 14m screen opened with the White Rose multiplex in November 2017; dual-projector IMAX Digital xenon.

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~IQ 46provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: Digital — generation not established
Screen: 24 m × 14 m (336 m²)
Screen shape: 1.71:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: IMAX 6-channel
Seats: 428
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2017
Operator: Cineworld

We went looking for this one. ⚠ The 2021 listing records a xenon projector here, but this screen is 24m wide and IMAX specified that system for screens no wider than 21.3 m. Nobody has stated the projector directly, so we don't assert one — the score treats it as unknown rather than assuming the older, dimmer system. This isn't pending — the operator doesn't publish a lamp type and neither does IMAX, so unless the venue says otherwise, nobody publishes it.

Why IQ 46

Screen size16/38

Projection18/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound4/8

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 Leeds White Rose IMAX · 24×14 m · picture 303 m², 10% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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6 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 336 m² total)

What you actually see

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Screen: 336 m²
Picture: 303 m²
Screen used: 90%

1.4 m of this screen — 10% 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.

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Projector: single source
Operating status: verified open

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