ETISALAT IMAX Theatre Cairo
Cairo · EgyptSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 37/100 — a modest premium screen, 326 m² of lit picture. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
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Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Digital — generation not established
- Screen
- 26.7 m × 13.1 m (350 m²)
- Screen shape
- 2.04:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 480
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2012
- Operator
We went looking for this one. ⚠ The 2021 listing records a xenon projector here, but this screen is 26.7m 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 37
326 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
digital, generation never established · recorded 2021 · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
no sound specification 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
- 3ETISALAT IMAX Theatre Cairo · 26.7×13.1 m · picture 326 m², 7% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
4 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 2 up · 350 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 350 m²
- Picture
- 326 m²
- Screen used
- 93%
1.8 m of this screen's width — 7% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing, in bands at the sides.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
•Where to next
Also in Cairo
Elsewhere in Egypt
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
Measurements disagree
We publish 26.7 × 13.1 m. Another source states 24 × 13 m. We have not established which is right, so the figure above stands and this note stays until something settles it.
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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