Wanda Shanghai Baoshan & IMAX
Shanghai · ChinaSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 42/100 — a modest premium screen, 190 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
5F - No. 936 - 128 Jinian Road - Baoshan Area, Shanghai, 200435 · Open in maps ↗
Map position approximate (city centre)
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 19 m × 10.5 m (200 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.81:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 247
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2012
- Operator
Why IQ 42
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
- 3Wanda Shanghai Baoshan & IMAX · 19×10.5 m · picture 190 m², 5% 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 · 200 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 200 m²
- Picture
- 190 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.
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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
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
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