Here’s a list of all of Birmingham’s cinema screens (as of December 2012, January 2013 March 2015). Update Jan 2013: The Showcase Cinema in Erdington shut in January 2013. 

Update March 2015: The Giant Screen has closed and a branch of Everyman Cinema has opened (3 screens, in Mailbox, city centre). That now means Birmingham has 80 screens and 17253 seats. That’s roughly one cinema seat for every 59 people.

Here’s why this list exists: I love watching films on BIG screens. Whenever I go to a multiplex I hate finding out that the film I’m watching is actually in its smallest screen. I kind of feel cheated. So I wanted a single place where I could find out the size of a screen. Obviously size does not necessarily equal a quality cinema going experience but for me it’s 90% of it. Also, the number of seats in the auditorium doesn’t mean that the screen size is the biggest (not now that Cineworld’s LieMAX and Odeon’s ISense screens fill the whole of the back wall of their screens). Including screen size in auditorium information would be useful but most cinemas omit it.

Screen 1 in Sutton Coldfield’s cinema has the most number of seats – 592. (Link to Google doc version of this with additional info)