Big cinemas that keep up-to-date with new releases are dying everywhere, not just here. Whether that's just people preferring to stream at home, or the marketing required to get big blockbusters on your screens not being financially feasible without unrealistic attendance rates, it's undeniable and only accelerated by the pandemic. Just recently Regal Cinemas has been going through a bankruptcy. Clearly Worcester and all surrounding towns can only sustain one of the big cinemas, and Blackstone is just where it ended up.

If anything I'd like to see the old Olympia Theatre on Pleasant St be updated to be a modern 2-screen theater. Though it looks like the current owners are placing their bets on making it another tiny indoor music venue.