Le Grand Rex - Grande Salle Heritage single-screen picture palaces
Paris · FrancePublished figures
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this Heritage single-screen picture palaces room C, 30/100 — a modest premium screen, 283 m² of lit picture. No source states the projector, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
Opened 8 Dec 1932, 1 boulevard Poissonniere. Europe's largest cinema auditorium by seats (2,700). The Grande Salle has TWO screens - a standard 16.9 × 7 m and the deployable 'Le Grand Large' at 24.9 × 11.35 m (~280 sq m), which is the figure given here. Three Barco DP-32 4K projectors in the Grande Salle. Coordinates published on Wikipedia. Independent, not Pathe Gaumont.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Not recorded
- Screen
- 24.9 m × 11.35 m (283 m²)
- Screen shape
- 2.19:1 — the fabric itself
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 2700
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1932
- Operator
- SAS Le Grand Rex (independent)
Nobody we can cite states what projects the picture in this room, so the projector scores at the floor — neither credited with laser nor assumed to be xenon. Treat the score as indicative.
Why IQ 30
283 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · no source on file
Not recorded · no source on file
no frame shape published for this room · scored at the base
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
- 3Le Grand Rex - Grande Salle · 24.9×11.3 m
- 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 · 283 m² total)
Worth travelling for?
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You'd get 38% more screen.
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You'd get 204% more screen.
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Where this comes from
Published figuresWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- not published — estimated
- Projector
- not established
- Operating status
- verified open
No source on file names the projector in this room. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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