Vue Amsterdam Houthavens - EPIC Vue EPIC

Amsterdam · NetherlandsSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this Vue EPIC room C, 35/100 — a modest premium screen, with no published dimensions, so the size score rests on an estimate. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.

Opened 16 Dec 2025 - the newest PLF room in continental Europe and the only EPIC hall outside the UK. 17m-wide screen (marketed as 'three Amsterdam canal houses wide'), Barco laser with HDR, Dolby Atmos up to 64 channels, ~200-204 electrically adjustable seats. The venue overall is billed as the Netherlands' largest cinema with 15 screens. Width published by Vue; height not.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 35*provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: 4K Laser(as of 2021)
Screen: Not published
Picture shown: 2.39:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 204
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2025
Operator: Vue

The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since — where we could check, 100 venues listed as xenon had been upgraded. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 35

Screen size *9/38

Projection22/36

Full 1.43 frame4/18

Sound0/8

* This venue has never published its screen dimensions. Size is scored on a deliberately conservative estimate, so an unmeasured screen can't out-rank a measured one on guesswork.

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
3Vue Amsterdam Houthavens - EPIC · 17×8.947368421052632 m · picture 121 m², 21% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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What you actually see

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A film shot in the full IMAX frame plays here at 2.39:1 — you see 60% of what the camera captured.

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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.

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