Vue London Westfield Shepherd's Bush - VueXtreme
London · United KingdomSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this VueXtreme room C, 33/100 — a modest premium screen, 136 m² of lit picture, with 25% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
18m x 10m (180 sq m), 453 seats - the joint-largest VueXtreme and taller than most UK chain PLFs. 4K xenon and Dolby Digital only, no Atmos. Coordinates published by Vue.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- 4K Laser(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 18 m × 10 m (180 m²)
- Picture area
- 136 m² — 25% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.80:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 2.39:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 453
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- —
- 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 33
⌷ 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 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3Vue London Westfield Shepherd's Bush - VueXtreme · 18×10 m · picture 136 m², 25% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 180 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 180 m²
- Picture
- 171 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.5 m of this screen — 5% of it — stays dark for a 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
BFI IMAX
London · 4.6 mi away
You'd get 189% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, Science Museum
London · 2.1 mi away
You'd get 117% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX
London · 3.8 mi away
You'd get 130% more screen.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Every premium screen in London · All of United Kingdom
Also in London
Elsewhere in United Kingdom
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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
- · 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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