Cineworld Cinema - Watford
Charter Place,
Watford,
WD17 2DJ
Charter Place,
Watford,
WD17 2DJ
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Operated by: Cineworld
Functions: Movies (First Run)
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Located in Watford, Hertfordshire, northwest of Greater London, on the first floor of the new extension to the INTU Shopping Centre. The 9-screen Cineworld Cinema was opened on December 14, 2018. The total seating capacity was 1,500-seats. It has an IMAX 3D laser screen which has 475 seats. In 2025 new recliner seating was installed reducing the total seating capacity to 933-seats,
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@CF100
Thank you very much for the detailed account of your IMAX with Laser experience at this new cinema.
Shame that I was unable to make it. Hope to visit soon though…
LARGE_screen_format: You’re welcome. :–)
A few links:
Cineworld Blog Post: “Cineworld Watford is now open!”
Watford Observer, 1st December 2018: “Inside Watford intu centre’s new Cineworld IMAX cinema.” A gallery of photos taken as the fit-out was nearing completion is included.
Farrat: Farrat Isolevel Tweet. This includes two photos, taken during an inspection, which show the steel frame for the IMAX auditorium’s stadia and the isolation pads used to decouple it from the concrete slab below.
Swindon Interiors — Cineworld Watford. Announcement of fit-out contract award (photo on page NOT of Cineworld Watford.)
Gala opening video. Dreadful!
I am not their target audience and certainly don’t object to multiplexes but miss the days of a clean sponsorship partnership free marquee telling me what’s playing. Movies for the sake of storytelling not technology
SethLewis:
Absolutely—although storytelling is most effective if supported by the best use of “technology”—I trust that you wouldn’t want to watch your favourite films on your mobile phone!
Bar the IMAX screen at 1.90, are all the other screens 2.39 Scope similar to the one in the photo ?
I ask because Cineworld has been prone to just install 1.85 screens in many of their new build cinemas necessitating Scope films be shown letterboxed as on TV.
Watford appears to be the first of the Cineworld’s to recieve their new style recliners.
There’s some info on them at https://www.cineworld.co.uk/static/en/uk/experience/recliners
The schedules for the first week since the announcement only show them using Screens 1(IMAX),7,8&9. With Screens 2-6 out of use, assuming while the recliners are installed into the rest of the screens.
Looking at the seating plans for Screens 7-9, the capacities have been reduced. With Screen 7 going down to 25, Screen 8 to 41 and Screen 9 to 57. Not including the wheelchair positions.
Screen 2 appears to be coming back into use this week after it’s refurbishment to add the new “best seat on the planet” recliners. With the capacity falling from 268 seats to 118 seats not including wheelchair positions.
Looks like Screens 3,4,5&6 are planned to reopen from the 10th of October with the opening of Tron: Ares and I Swear. Which completes the upgrade to Laser projection and recliners for all of the screens.
Screen 3 is still the ScreenX screen, with the seating capacity reducing from 221 to 98 (not including wheelchair positions).
Screen 4 reduces from 124 seats to 57 recliners (not including wheelchair positions) copying the layout of Screen 9.
Screen 5 is located directly below Screen 8 and duplicates the layout with the capacity reducing down to 41 seats not including the wheelchair position.
Screen 6 is the same and is located below Screen 7, reducing down to 25 seats (not including the wheelchair position) as with Screen 7.
From the photos the screen decor now looks very grey and drab compared to before. Have they taken out the Cineworld logos and red LED strips or did the smaller screens not have them to begin with?
@Zappomatic From my visit on Friday once they’d reopened all the screens, looks like they’ve removed or turned off the red LED strips but retained the logos for screens that had them pre-refurbishment.
Hadn’t visited any of the non premium format screens before they got refurbished, so don’t know which had the LED strips or stars. But from the previous photos of Screen 4 on here, the Stars have not moved but it did previously have the LED strips.