ODEON Braehead IMAX
Glasgow · United KingdomPublished figures
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 48/100 — a modest premium screen, 142 m² of lit picture. No source names the projector in this room, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 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(from the room's description)
- 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
No source we can cite names the projector here; the label comes from the description of this room in our notes. Treat the score as indicative.
Why IQ 48
142 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · from the room's description · no source on file
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
IMAX 12-channel · as 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
- 3ODEON Braehead IMAX · 16.4×9.1 m · picture 142 m², 5% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 149 m² total)
What you actually see
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IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 149 m²
- Picture
- 142 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.5 m of this screen's height — 5% 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.
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.
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Where this comes from
Published figuresWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- not established
- Operating status
- verified open
Sources disagree
The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.
No source on file names the projector in this room. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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