Cineworld Watford IMAX
Watford · United KingdomConfirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 54/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 255 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
New-build cinema at Atria Watford opened December 2018 with one of the first single-laser CoLa IMAX installs in Europe.
INTU Charter Place Shopping Mall, Queens Road, Watford, WD17 2UB · Open in maps ↗
Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 22 m × 11.6 m (255 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.90:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 475
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2018
- Operator
- Cineworld
Why IQ 54
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 Watford IMAX · 22×11.6 m
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
4 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 2 up · 255 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 255 m²
- Picture
- 255 m²
- Screen used
- 100%
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
BFI IMAX
London · 16 mi away
You'd get 104% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum
London · 14 mi away
You'd get 53% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX
London · 15 mi away
You'd get 62% more screen.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
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Where this comes from
Confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 3 sources
- · regional research ↗
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
Showtimes
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