Pathé Arena IMAX
Amsterdam · NetherlandsSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 53/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 243 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
The Netherlands' largest IMAX (laser) screen, the Benelux flagship at Amsterdam ArenA Boulevard.
Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 21.5 m × 11.8 m (254 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.82:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 480
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2013
- Operator
- Pathé Netherlands
Why IQ 53
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
- 3Pathé Arena IMAX · 21.5×11.8 m · picture 243 m², 4% 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 · 254 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 254 m²
- Picture
- 243 m²
- Screen used
- 96%
0.5 m of this screen — 4% 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.
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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
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
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