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Cineworld York IMAX

York · United KingdomConfirmed ×2

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 49/100 — a modest premium screen, with no published dimensions, so the size score rests on an estimate. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.

Opened December 2019 at York Community Stadium with a 382-seat single-laser CoLa IMAX on a 22.29m-wide screen.

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IQ 49*

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen
Not published
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
No
Sound
IMAX 12-channel
Seats
382
Screen type
Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened
2019
Operator
Cineworld

Why IQ 49

Screen size *9/38
Projection24/36
Full 1.43 frame8/18
Sound8/8

* This venue has never published its screen dimensions. Size is scored on a deliberately conservative estimate, so an unmeasured screen can't out-rank a measured one on guesswork.

How big, really?

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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 York IMAX · 22.29×11.73157894736842 m
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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What you actually see

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NOT SHOWN HERENOT SHOWN HERE
A film shot in the full IMAX frame plays here at 1.90:1 — you see 75% of what the camera captured.

Worth travelling for?

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You'd get real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

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Where this comes from

Confirmed ×2

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions
confirmed by 2 sources
Projector
confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status
verified open

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