ODEON Braehead IMAX
Glasgow · United KingdomSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 48/100 — a modest premium screen, 142 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
IMAX digital opened November 2010 at Braehead (Renfrew), reopening August 2025 after a full IMAX with Laser upgrade.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 16.4 m × 9.1 m (149 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.80:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 333
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2010
- Operator
- Odeon
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 — where we could check, 100 venues listed as xenon had been upgraded. Treat the score as indicative.
Why IQ 48
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
- 3ODEON Braehead IMAX · 16.4×9.1 m · picture 142 m², 5% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 149 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
- 149 m²
- Picture
- 142 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.5 m of this screen — 5% of it — stays dark for a 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.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Cineworld Glasgow Silverburn IMAX
Glasgow · 4.1 mi away
You'd get 114% more screen.
Better screens within 75 mi
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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
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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