Simple IMAX, Cinema City Budapest
Budapest · HungarySize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 35/100 — a modest premium screen, 303 m² of lit picture, with 26% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
Kerepesi Út 9, Budapest, 1087 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Digital — generation not established
- Screen
- 24 m × 17 m (408 m²)
- Picture area
- 303 m² — 26% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.41:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 398
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2008
- Operator
We went looking for this one. ⚠ The 2021 listing records a xenon projector here, but this screen is 24m wide and IMAX specified that system for screens no wider than 21.3 m. Nobody has stated the projector directly, so we don't assert one — the score treats it as unknown rather than assuming the older, dimmer system. This isn't pending — the operator doesn't publish a lamp type and neither does IMAX, so unless the venue says otherwise, nobody publishes it.
Why IQ 35
303 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
digital, generation never established · recorded 2021 · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
no sound specification published
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.
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
- 3Simple IMAX, Cinema City Budapest · 24×17.0 m · picture 303 m², 26% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
6 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 408 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 408 m²
- Picture
- 303 m²
- Screen used
- 74%
4.4 m of this screen's height — 26% 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
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Budapest · All of Hungary
Also in Budapest
Elsewhere in Hungary
Where this comes from
Size confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · local press ↗
- Projector
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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