ODEON Gateshead & IMAX
Gateshead · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 42/100 — a modest premium screen, 190 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
48 Garden Walk - MetroCentre, Gateshead, NE11 9XZ · Open in maps ↗
Map position approximate (city centre)
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 19 m × 10 m (190 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.90:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 366
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2009
- Operator
Why IQ 42
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 Gateshead & IMAX · 19×10 m
- 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 · 190 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 190 m²
- Picture
- 190 m²
- Screen used
- 100%
Worth travelling for?
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ODEON Metrocentre
Gateshead · 0.0 mi away
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Where this comes from
Size confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- 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.
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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