Event Cinemas Queen Street & IMAX
Auckland · New ZealandConfirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room A, 78/100 — a genuinely strong large-format room, 510 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
291-297 Queen Street, Auckland, 1005 · Open in maps ↗
Excellent large-format presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX GT Dual Laser
- Screen
- 27 m × 19.9 m (537 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.36:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 — full IMAX frame
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 436
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1999
- Operator
Why IQ 78
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2Event Cinemas Queen Street & IMAX · 27×19.9 m · picture 510 m², 5% never lit
- 3BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 537 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
The full IMAX frame — the tallest picture that exists
- Screen
- 537 m²
- Picture
- 510 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
1.0 m of this screen — 5% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.43 showing.
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
Elsewhere in New Zealand
Where this comes from
Confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · 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
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