ODEON Trafford Centre IMAX
Manchester · United KingdomSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 49/100 — a modest premium screen, 167 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
IMAX opened November 2013 at the 20-screen Trafford Centre site and now runs IMAX with Laser projection following Odeon's 2022-25 laser upgrade programme.
201 The Dome, The Trafford Centre, Manchester, M17 8DF · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 17.8 m × 9.7 m (173 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.84:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- Not published
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2013
- Operator
- Odeon
Why IQ 49
167 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · one source
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 Trafford Centre IMAX · 17.8×9.7 m · picture 167 m², 3% 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 · 173 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
- 173 m²
- Picture
- 167 m²
- Screen used
- 97%
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Vue Manchester Printworks IMAX
Manchester · 4.7 mi away
You'd get 186% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Cineworld Sheffield IMAX
Sheffield · 39 mi away
You'd get 79% more screen.
ODEON Luxe Birmingham Broadway Plaza
Birmingham · about 70 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Manchester · All of United Kingdom
Also in Manchester
Elsewhere in United Kingdom
Other Odeon screens
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- one source, listed twice — these copy each other
- · 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.
Showtimes
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