Cineworld Rushden Lakes IMAX
Rushden · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 51/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 211 m² of lit picture, with 25% of the screen never lit. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
Cineworld's 100th cinema opened June 2019 with a single-laser CoLa IMAX from day one.
Rushden Lakes Shopping Centre, West Terrace, Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 6FA · Open in maps ↗
Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 20 m × 14 m (280 m²)
- Picture area
- 211 m² — 25% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.43:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 412
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2019
- Operator
- Cineworld
Why IQ 51
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.
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 Rushden Lakes IMAX · 20×14 m · picture 211 m², 25% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
3 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 3 up · 280 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 280 m²
- Picture
- 211 m²
- Screen used
- 75%
3.5 m of this screen — 25% 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.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
BFI IMAX
London · 59 mi away
You'd get 86% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum
London · 59 mi away
You'd get 40% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX
London · 58 mi away
You'd get 48% more screen.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Rushden · All of United Kingdom
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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
- · regional research ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- 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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