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r/boxoffice

Box Office - The Business of Movies. A place to talk about the box office and the movie business, both domestically and internationally. Founded 2009 · 1.2M members

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 59.1K upvotes, which works out to 48 per 1,000 members.

48peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
59.1Kbest post
3.4Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

43% 41%
Link 43% Image 41% Text 7% Question 4% Video 3% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

:domestic: Domestic 235 :worldwide: Worldwide 84 📰 Industry News 57 ✍️ Original Analysis 44 ⏳️ Throwback Tuesday 38 📠 Industry Analysis 33 💯 Critic/Audience Score 31 :trailer: Trailer 26 :china: China 25 :ukireland: United Kingdom & Ireland 24

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Sony believed it was Morbin' Time with all the Morbius memes online, re-releasing the film in 1000+ theaters. But the studio has been trolled by fans…

↑ 59.1K 💬 3.3K link 2022

Taika Waititi Will Expand ‘Star Wars’ Away from Preexisting Characters, Forget Prequel Origin Stories. The galaxy far, far away will no longer look b…

↑ 36.5K 💬 3K link 2022

Netflix Backs Away from Will Smith Film ‘Fast and Loose’

↑ 23.3K 💬 984 link 2022

Netflix Loses 200,000 Subscribers in Q1, Expects to Lose 2 Million More in Q2

↑ 21K 💬 2.7K link 2022

People complain that nothing original comes out of Hollywood anymore, but then two of the largest and most original films of 2022 completely bomb at …

↑ 15.6K 💬 3.4K image 2022

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is now tied with Eternals for the lowest RottenTomatoes rating of any MCU movie

↑ 14.6K 💬 2.8K image 2023

'The Hangover' was released 13 years ago. The $35 million movie became critical and commercial success. It grossed $467 million worldwide and won the…

↑ 14.1K 💬 689 image 2022

Ezra Miller allegedly “burst into the bedroom of the petitioner(s) and threatened” the male victim “saying ‘I will bury you and your slut wife.”

↑ 14K 💬 1.7K link 2022

Ben Stiller questions Variety's reporting of 'Sinners' box office performance: "In what universe does a 60 million dollar opening for an original stu…

↑ 13K 💬 784 image 2025

[WW]‘Avengers: Endgame’ Finally Conquers King of The World James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ To Becoming The Highest Grossing Film Of All-Time

↑ 12.7K 💬 1.1K link 2019

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/boxoffice, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/boxoffice?
r/boxoffice ("Box Office - The Business of Movies") describes itself this way: A place to talk about the box office and the movie business, both domestically and internationally. It was founded in 2009 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/boxoffice have?
r/boxoffice has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 59.1K upvotes, which is 48 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/boxoffice?
"Sony believed it was Morbin' Time with all the Morbius memes online, re-releasing the film in 1000+ theaters. But the studio has been trolle" reached 59.1K upvotes and 3.3K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/boxoffice.
What subreddits are similar to r/boxoffice?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/boxoffice?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are link posts and 41% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/boxoffice?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (9.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/boxoffice?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/boxoffice has 9.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 342 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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