Novo Cinemas Ibn Battuta Mall & IMAX

Dubai · United Arab EmiratesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 31/100 — at the bottom of the premium range, 223 m² of lit picture, with 17% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 31provisional

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Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 20.6 m × 13.1 m (270 m²)
Picture area: 223 m² — 17% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.57:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 348
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2005
Operator

⚠ This venue has closed (2024). The 21-screen Novo Cinemas at Ibn Battuta Mall - home to the Middle East's first IMAX (opened July 2005) - closed on 31 July 2024. The mall states the site will be taken over by another cinema operator.

The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 31

Screen size12/38

223 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.

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
3Novo Cinemas Ibn Battuta Mall & IMAX · 20.6×13.1 m · picture 223 m², 17% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 270 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 270 m²
Picture: 223 m²
Screen used: 83%

2.3 m of this screen's height — 17% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified closed (2024)

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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