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Moviesinthemaking: A behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of film. A celebration of movie making, showcasing the best behind-the-scenes photos, videos and articles from movies, classic to modern, kitsch to cult, and everything in between. Founded 2012 · 1.1M members

1.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 56.9K upvotes, which works out to 51 per 1,000 members.

51peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.1Mmembers
56.9Kbest post
609most comments
402posts 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.

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Image 74% Gallery 14% Video 10% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Exterior of the sewer set in IT

↑ 56.9K 💬 609 image 2019

Creating the "computer" graphics for John Carpenter's Escape From New York, 1981

↑ 45.2K 💬 322 image 2024

Anne Hathaway on filming Interstellar in Iceland (2014)

↑ 19.9K 💬 221 image 2025

The podracing crowd in ‘The Phantom Menace’ was really 450,000 Q-Tips being blown about

↑ 17.9K 💬 400 image 2018

Lion King animators taking a class in how to draw lions in 1992

↑ 17.1K 💬 233 image 2019

Wilhelm Dafoe surprises Alfred Molina on the set of Spider-Man 2 (2002)

↑ 16.3K 💬 235 video 2021

I, Tonya special effects

↑ 16K 💬 346 video 2018

Christian Bale as Frankenstein with his son, who will be portraying a newsie, on the set of The Bride (2025)

↑ 15.7K 💬 411 image 2024

Christopher Nolan directing Inception

↑ 15.6K 💬 195 video 2018

Oscar Isaac on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

↑ 15.5K 💬 375 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/Moviesinthemaking, in numbers

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

What is r/Moviesinthemaking?
r/Moviesinthemaking ("Moviesinthemaking: A behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of film") describes itself this way: A celebration of movie making, showcasing the best behind-the-scenes photos, videos and articles from movies, classic to modern, kitsch to cult, and everything in between. It was founded in 2012 and has 1.1M members.
How many members does r/Moviesinthemaking have?
r/Moviesinthemaking has about 1.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 56.9K upvotes, which is 51 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Moviesinthemaking?
"Exterior of the sewer set in IT" reached 56.9K upvotes and 609 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Moviesinthemaking.
What subreddits are similar to r/Moviesinthemaking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/PastAndPresentPics.
What kind of posts do best on r/Moviesinthemaking?
Of the posts we hold, 74% are image posts and 14% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Moviesinthemaking?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (18.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 16:00 UTC (11.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (10.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/Moviesinthemaking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Moviesinthemaking has 12K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 10 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Moviesinthemaking, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.