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The Backlot & IMAX

Blackpool · United KingdomSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 43/100 — a modest premium screen, 208 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.

Unit N25/26 Houndshill Shopping Centre, Coronation Street, Blackpool.

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IQ 43

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen
19.87 m × 10.85 m (216 m²)
Screen shape
1.83:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
No
Sound
Not published
Seats
Not published
Screen type
Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened
2024
Operator
Backlot

Why IQ 43

Screen size11/38

208 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

1234

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
  • 3The Backlot & IMAX · 19.87×10.8 m · picture 208 m², 4% never lit
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 216 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark
Screen
216 m²
Picture
208 m²
Screen used
96%

0.4 m of this screen's height — 4% 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

Vue Manchester Printworks IMAX

Manchester · 40 mi away

You'd get 129% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

S

Cineworld Sheffield IMAX

Sheffield · 73 mi away

You'd get 43% more screen.

B

ODEON Luxe Leeds Thorpe Park

Leeds · about 60 mi away

B

Better screens within 75 mi

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions
single source
Projector
single source
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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