Cineworld Leeds White Rose IMAX
Leeds · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 39/100 — 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 5 November 2026.
Purpose-built 428-seat IMAX with a Cineworld-confirmed 24 × 14 m screen opened with the White Rose multiplex in November 2017; dual-projector IMAX Digital xenon.
White Rose Shopping Centre, Dewsbury Road, Leeds, LS11 8LU · Open in maps ↗
Map position approximate (city centre)
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 39
303 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
digital, generation never established · recorded 2021 · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
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 Leeds White Rose IMAX · 24×14.0 m · picture 303 m², 10% 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 · 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's height — 10% 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
Vue Manchester Printworks IMAX
Manchester · about 35 mi away
You'd get 47% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineworld Sheffield IMAX
Sheffield · about 25 mi away
ODEON Luxe Leeds Thorpe Park
Leeds
Better screens within 75 mi
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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
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · local press ↗
- 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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