Event Cinemas Queensgate & IMAX
Lower Hutt · New ZealandSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 47/100 — a modest premium screen, 283 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
37A Bloomfield Terrace, Hutt Central, Lower Hutt, 5010.
37A Bloomfield Terrace, Hutt Central, Lower Hutt, 5010, 5010 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 23.2 m × 12.5 m (290 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.86:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- Not published
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- —
- Operator
Why IQ 47
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
- 3Event Cinemas Queensgate & IMAX · 23.2×12.5 m · picture 283 m², 2% never lit
- 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 · 290 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
- 290 m²
- Picture
- 283 m²
- Screen used
- 98%
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
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- 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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