UA IMAX Theatre @ Airport

Hong Kong · Hong KongSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 33/100 — a modest premium screen, 264 m² of lit picture, with 15% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 33provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: Digital — generation not established
Screen: 22.4 m × 13.8 m (309 m²)
Picture area: 264 m² — 15% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.62:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 350
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2007
Operator

⚠ This venue has closed (2019). Closed 29 Sep 2019 for HKIA Terminal 2 expansion; UA Cinema Circuit ceased all HK operations 8 Mar 2021. Only 2 HK venues remain on imax.com (MegaBox, Space Museum).

⚠ The 2021 listing records a xenon projector here, but this screen is 22.4m 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.

Why IQ 33

Screen size14/38

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

Projection11/36

digital, generation never established · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

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
3UA IMAX Theatre @ Airport · 22.4×13.8 m · picture 264 m², 15% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

6 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 309 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 309 m²
Picture: 264 m²
Screen used: 85%

2.0 m of this screen's height — 15% 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

Dongguan Wanda & IMAX

Dongguan · about 60 mi away

You'd get 103% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.

Dongguan Science & Technology Museum

Dongguan · about 55 mi away

You'd get 102% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

OMNIMAX, Hong Kong Space Museum

Hong Kong

You'd get 102% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

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Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified closed (2019)

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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