WEDS UPDATE: “Last Jedi” Tuesday was $20.3 million vs. $37 mil for “Force Awakens” on its first Tuesday. That’s around 42% off. $17 million is a big difference.  Monday and Tuesday are big days for adults going to the movies, so this development is a little surprising. Almost every other film increased from Monday to Tuesday by quite a lot. Only “Last Jedi” declined, by 6%. Again, Monday and Tuesday are days when adults come out and sample “smart” movies. For some reason, their interest in “Star Wars” less than was imagined.

TUESDAY: Monday’s box office numbers turned up a new glitch in the numbers for “The Last Jedi.”

Even the Disney experts must have been surprised. “Jedi” took home $21.5 million on Monday, an important night for adult filmgoers.

But two years ago, “The Force Awakens” reaped just over $40 million on its first Monday. It’s almost twice as much.

There’s a feeling that “Jedi” is soft at the box office. I don’t know why. It’s just as good if not better. And it has major plot developments for “Star Wars” fans.

So this afternoon’s report on Tuesday numbers will be scrutinized closely. “Force Awakens” did $37.3 million on its first Tuesday. Will “Jedi” compare favorably? Stay tuned…

It took $10 million to erase Kevin Spacey from “All the Money in the World” and replace him with Christopher Plummer.

Luckily, the producers had deep pockets and a major studio– Sony– to support them.

Such is not the case with the one big movie Spacey still has in the can. “The Billionaire Boys Club” is an independent feature with over 25 producers and a $15 million budget.

The “BBC,” as it was known, was a Ponzi scheme run by a young charismatic guy named Joe Hunt (Ansel Elgort). Spacey plays Ron Levin, a freelance journalist and con man who fell in with the BBC and was consequently murdered. The movie also stars Emma Roberts, Jeremy Irvine, Billie Lourd, Suki Waterhouse, and Judd Nelson. Worldwide distribution was pre-sold but there’s no US distributor. And that’s a problem now that Spacey is like Kryptonite.

“Everyone in the film has been damaged by this,” says one source. “They’ve all been harmed. And we don’t have a producer who has the money to go back and reshoot Spacey’s scenes– even if it could be done.”

For now, producers will screen the film in the new year and hope that one of the distributors who saw it before Spacey’s scandal broke will still go ahead with it. The fact that Spacey’s accusers have trickled down in the last few weeks could help. And it’s not like “BBC” is a Disney musical. It’s a movie about murder, drugs, sex, etc. In that sense, Spacey’s notoriety might add some glamor to the publicity.

I hate to say it, but the Golden Globes were right: Christopher Plummer deserves nominations for Ridley Scott’s “All the Money in the World.” He shot 22 scenes in 9 days, replacing Kevin Spacey, and is so good that he will up end the Best Supporting Actor race not only for the Globes but the Oscars as well.

It turns out that Spacey’s sex scandal had a silver lining. Plummer is absolutely right for a role that would have been campy in Spacey’s hands.

This movie about the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III turns out to be the year end surprise, a devastating thriller and a winner for Sony Pictures’ Tri Star. Scott shows once again his masterful hand by making a movie twice– twice, think of it! He had to call everyone back and match up what he thought was finished material. There’s only two times that it looks fake, but no faker than anything else we’ve ever seen. Otherwise, “All the Money in the World” is kind of a miracle.

Time here to tell you that this is Michelle Williams’s best work ever. She plays Gail Getty, ex wife of loser J Paul II (Andrew Buchan, brilliant job). Cut off from the Getty money, Gail becomes the hero of the kidnapping story, doing everything to get her son back from a series of kidnappers who eventually, infamously, cut off the teenager’s ear for ransom money. Mark Wahlberg has taken the smart role of his career as Fletcher Chase, a security expert who works for Getty but helps Gail in her quest.

And oh the ransom– this is like the great comedy “Ruthless People,” in which Bette Midler is taken and Danny DeVito demands from the kidnappers.  J Paul Getty didn’t want to pay the original $17 million demand, and didn’t: without the ear, Paul (Getty III) is only worth $4 million tops. The billionaire grandfather — the richest man in the world– contributes a puny $1 million while claiming poverty and buying rare art work worth far more.

Scott and screenwriter David Scarpa deserve a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay as they’ve narrowed the book by John Pearson to a well oiled machine. We can read the book for more information about the Gettys and all the other factors that played parts in this greedy family’s life. Indeed, the Gettys went on after this. Paul, without his ear, went on to have a child at age 19, the actor we know as Balthazar Getty, who is now 42. (All of Balthazar’s personal problems could be explained and excused by this movie.)

Scott and Scarpa have really constructed a beautiful piece here that never stops being involving. And a lot of that is due to Michelle Williams. She’s fully immersed here, and again, mesmerizing. Kudos also to Charlie Plummer (no relation to Christopher) as Paul, and Romain Duris as the only sympathetic kidnapper.

Does “All the Money in the World” go in Best Picture? Yes, maybe. And that shakes up a list that — by me–is The Post, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, 3 Billboards, The Big Sick, Call Me By Your Name, and this would be number 9. For now. It all depends on getting out screeners and getting voters into screenings. As fae as Williams goes, I’d put her into supporting. Laurie Metcalf and Allison Janney, the leaders so far in that category, will want to knee cap her when they see this performance! (They could call in Tonya Harding for help.)