ODEON Kingston IMAX
London · United KingdomSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 45/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 99 m² of lit picture, with 10% of the screen never lit. No source names the projector in this room, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
Large IMAX digital (Screen 2) at the Rotunda Kingston since November 2010, given a 2025 visual and acoustic IMAX refresh and now marketed as IMAX with Laser.
Map position approximate (city centre)
Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser(from the room's description)
- Screen
- 15.2 m × 7.23 m (110 m²)
- Screen shape
- 2.10:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 379
- 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.
⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.2m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.
Why IQ 45
99 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
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 Kingston IMAX · 15.2×7.2 m · picture 99 m², 10% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 110 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 110 m²
- Picture
- 99 m²
- Screen used
- 90%
1.5 m of this screen's width — 10% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing, in bands at the sides.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
BFI IMAX
London
You'd get 373% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum
London
You'd get 256% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX
London
You'd get 276% more screen.
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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
- · regional research ↗
- · 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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