r/BoxOffice hosted a survey, inviting users to submit their responses. This was done to know more about our demographics, tastes and the ways we can improve this sub.

320 users responded to the survey (last year we had 325) and we thank y'all for taking your time for this. We asked for your username to avoid identity theft, but we won't disclose who answered what here.

These were the results.

SECTION: YOURSELF

This section was used to compile the main demographics of the sub. And here were the questions and answers.

What is your gender?

We received 318 responses here. Unsurprisingly, it massively skewed male, slightly more than last year.

What's your age?

We received 316 responses here. Well, we still continue to skew young.

What country are you from?

We received 320 responses here. United States, obviously, the top choice.

SECTION: YOUR MOVIE EXPERIENCE

In this section, we want to find more about your interest in movies. After all, this is a sub about box office for movies.

How many times have you gone to the theater in the past year?

We received 319 responses here. Looks like we'll have to expand the options next year, again.

Which way do you prefer to watch movies?

We received 316 responses here. No surprise, theaters are the way.

What's your favorite movie genre?

We received 316 responses here, and you could choose more than one option.

Which of these distribution studios do you prefer?

We received 308 responses here, and you could choose more than one option. It's cool seeing an artsy studio on top, even if that does not translate into the biggest box office numbers.

In your past visits, your experience in the movie theaters has been...?

We received 320 responses here. We modified the options from last year, hoping to clear some confusion.

Lately, studios have been sending their movies to VOD after a few weeks. In the past, it took months for that to happen. Is this a good decision?

We received 316 responses here. While a lot of comments maintain this cannot impact the box office, that's not the consensus that the results show here.

Is box office important for streaming films?

We received 316 responses here. It's surprising how the option for the obligatory limited release that Netflix does has more votes than the simple "no" option.

Do you think there are still box office stars? Movies that still pull off audiences on their name?

We received 319 responses here. Pretty much asking because we're in this era of IP-driven films.

BONUS: What are some movie stars that still pull off audiences on their name?

This question can only be unblocked if you voted "only in certain cases" or "yes" in the previous question. As such, only 252 users named actors here. The most names mentioned (and limiting to just actors with at least 10 votes), with one actor getting around 2/3 of the votes here:

SECTION: THE SUBREDDIT

We wanted to know more about your opinions about the sub in general, and the ways we can improve it.

When did you first join this sub?

We received 317 responses here. Those three that have been here in the sub since its beginning, please rise up!

Your experience in the sub has been...?

We received 316 responses here. With all honesty, please.

What's something that this sub needs to improve?

We received 288 responses here. While we considered allowing users to choose multiple option here, the point of the question is to consider what's the biggest problem among these options. And I think we all know what the #1 choice was...

Any additional comment you might want to add?

We received 95 responses here. This is the only question where we will not disclose each answer. The answers are for the mods, who will review all the comments and see how to improve here. We'll just see some bullet points:

• Many have complained about Empire City's presence in the sub. Well, the mods have discussed this matter and reached an agreement. From this day on, Empire will be allowed in the sub... but under two conditions. The first is that daily projections and weekend projections (made the week of release) are allowed as standalone posts. The second is that his long range projections (i.e. on the first day tickets go on sale) will not be allowed, because he doesn't provide data unlike the BOT users. Remember when he said Mufasa was locked in for $1 billion based on just 12 hours? OP sure remembers it.

• One of the biggest problems, unsurprisingly, is the fanboy wars. Particularly during the whole Mufasa vs. Sonic timeline. We understand the frustrations and want to be sure any box office discussion can be civil and respectful. It's simply complicated to control every single fight.

• We love quality original content and want to encourage people to do some quality work here. From time to time, we like to pin a few posts that we consider very useful and interesting. But it has to be great quality. Don't expect us to pin a post where you use a graph for a franchise, or director or something like that. More effort is always welcome.

• There's complaints over the perceived negativity of the sub. Where a lot of users root for films to fail. As an example, people used Better Man for this, given how it was a huge financial disaster. But the thing we noticed is that people trash-talked the film... without even watching it. Look, I understand that it can be crazy when a film can flop like that, but talking badly about a film and rooting for it to fail without even watching it... is just very disappointing. Especially when it's got some great reviews and audience response. We're not saying you have to like it or defend it, but we're simply asking you to be open-minded about a film's performance.

• And that also brings up the following point. Some people have complained about my own "The X Saga" posts I have made for the past 2 years, feeling it simply adds to the negativity of the sub. I want to be clear about it here, my intent is not to encourage negativity. These posts are done with the intent of showing how a film with some potential or an interesting history ended up performing worse than anyone anticipated. It's also not something that happens very regularly; in the past 2 years, I've only made 5 posts about it. And I'm seizing the opportunity to encourage people to make their own "sagas" about hits or films that surprised us in a very good way. No one is forbidden from doing that. We invite you to do them, we love seeing how something overcomes the expectations. For example, u/nicolasb51942003 made a Deadpool & Wolverine Saga post and it's great. More like this, please.

• "This sub was wrong about this film" A complaint that many have mentioned, wherein some comments say this whenever a film comes out. We'd like to reiterate that this sub has 1.1 million users, and everyone will have different expectations on films. There's no consensus, unless you took a poll that would represent 50% of the sub. It's also a pointless comment; whether Superman succeeds or flops, I can already see the "this sub is wrong again" comments, no matter how it performs. Let's scale back on that one, please. No need to mock. Nobody's perfect.

• A few comments suggesting I try an "Actors at the Box Office" edition, inspired by the "Directors at the Box Office" posts. Sounds intriguing, and I might be working on something like that. Stay tuned.

What are your 10 most anticipated movies of 2025?

We received 317 responses here, and you could choose more than one option. Those results were already disclosed in a separate post, which you can find here.

What were your 10 favorite films of 2024?

This year, we introduced a new question to determine where the opinion of this sub stood over film quality. We received 314 responses here, and you could choose up to 10 films. The full list:

We appreciate your time for taking part in this survey. We'll have another survey later in December, and see how much different it looks.