SM Mall of Asia IMAX
Pasay City · PhilippinesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 43/100 — a modest premium screen, 443 m² of lit picture, with 31% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
SM Mall of Asia - SM Central Business Park - Bay City, Pasay City.
SM Mall of Asia - SM Central Business Park - Bay City, Pasay City · Open in maps ↗
Map position approximate (city centre)
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Not established
- Screen
- 29 m × 22 m (638 m²)
- Picture area
- 443 m² — 31% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.32:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 586
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2006
- Operator
⚠ A 2021 industry listing recorded a 15/70mm film projector here, and we could find nothing to confirm or refute it. Most multiplex film systems were removed years ago; many museum ones still run. Rather than guess either way, this venue is scored as if the projector were unknown — so if it does still run film, the score below understates it substantially.
Why IQ 43
443 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
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
- 2SM Mall of Asia IMAX · 29×22.0 m · picture 443 m², 31% never lit
- 3BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
10 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 5 up · 638 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 638 m²
- Picture
- 443 m²
- Screen used
- 69%
6.7 m of this screen's height — 31% 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
Also in Pasay City
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
- single source
- Operating status
- verified open
Sources disagree
The 2021 industry listing records this venue as film; 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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