Movie theater multiplex dumpsters are filled with lobby displays for remakes that bombed at the box office.

Summer 2016's most notable remake bomb is "Ben-Hur," which, with a budget of $100 million, not including its advertising budget (typically half of a film's budget), has grossed an estimated $26 million in the United States. "Ben-Hur" 2016 couldn't match the 1959 classic starring Charlton Heston.Many examples of box-office poison remakes can be cited. Still, remakes are a Hollywood tradition, going back to the advent of synchronous sound motion pictures that remade silent films.You need look no further than 2016's "The Magnificent Seven" remake of director John Sturges' 1960 western movie classic starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen. Happily, "The Magnificent Seven" remake by director Antoine Fuqua, reteaming here with Denzel Washington ("The Equallizer," 2014) and Washington and Ethan Hawke ("Training Day," 2001) stands alone.Washington is ostensibly playing the Brynner part as leader of the seven southwest hired guns, but that's about where the similarity ends in the screenplay by Richard Wenk ("The Equalizer," "The Mechanic," 2011) and Nic Pizzolatto (TV's "True Detective," 2014-15, and a novelist) based on the screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni for director Kurosawa's 1954 "Seven Samurai" ("Shichinin no samurai"), which inspired the 1960 "Magnificent Seven."In the 2016 "Magnificent Seven," instead of seven gunslingers protecting villagers terrorized by bandits, a widow (an impressive Haley Bennett) summons seven savvy tough guys, each with a particular "killer" talent (including Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier) to protect a circa 1879 town from a ruthless mining operator (Peter Sarsgaard), appropriating land at the end of a gun.Several of the performances are memorable: Washington's quiet presence under a huge black cowboy hat, Pratt's snide cardshark, Sarsgaard's cruel-eyed capitalist, and a Bible-verse spouting mountain man played by D'Onofrio, who could garner a supporting actor Oscar nomination.The screenplay moves inexorably toward a huge, cleverly staged and lengthy conflagration that rivals those in director Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" (1969).The new "Seven" is visually atmospheric: impressive vistas, sepia-saturated color, extensive use of sun flare, and upward-view camera angle framing on some of the lead actors by Director of Photography Mauro Fiore (Oscar, cinematography, "Avatar," 2010).There's lot of violence. The body count is in the dozens. While there is a modicum of blood in the depictions of shootings, knife stabbings and arrow piercings, it is convincing and wince-inducing.While "The Magnificent Seven" achieves a true emotional resonance, it won't make you forget the 1960 original nor the 1954 Kurosawa film. Nor should it. The 2016 version rides on its own merits."The Magnificent Seven,"MPAA Rated PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some Material May Be Inappropriate For Children Under 13.) for extended and intense sequences of Western violence, and for historical smoking, some language and suggestive material; Genre: Western; Run time: 2 hrs., 12 mins.; Distributed by Columbia Pictures.Credit Readers Anonymous:A version of the iconic Elmer Bernstein theme for the 1960 "The Magnificent Seven" is orchestrated at the top of the closing credits when images of the Number 7 (similar to the original film's poster and logo) are shown for the 2016 "The Magnificent Seven," for which the film's score was written by James Horner. He completed portions and themes for the 2016 movie before he died in a plane crash in 2015. The film is dedicated to Horner. Horner's collaborator Simon Franglen is also credited for the score with additional music by Simon Rhodes.Box Office,Sept. 23: "The Magnificent Seven" rode to the top, opening at No. 1 with $35 million, one week, keeping "Storks" circling at No. 2, with $21.8 million, one week, and detouring "Sully" to No. 3, after two weeks straight at No. 1, with $13.8 million, $92.3 million, three weeks;4. "Bridget Jones's Baby," $4.5 million, $16.4 million, two weeks; 5. "Snowden," $4.1 million, $15.1 million, two weeks; 6. "Blair Witch," $3.9 million, $16.1 million; 7. "Don't Breathe," $3.8 million, $81.1 million, five weeks; 8. "Suicide Squad," $3.1 million, $318.1 million, eight weeks; 9. "When the Bough Breaks," $2.5 million, $26.6 million, three weeks; 10. "Kubo and the Two Strings," $1.1 million, $45.9 million, six weeks.Unreel,Sept. 30:"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,"PG-13: Tim Burton ("Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," "The Nightmare Before Christmas") directs Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson and Judi Dench in the fantasy film about a home where the residents have special powers."Deepwater Horizon,"PG-13: Peter Berg directs Dylan O'Brien, Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson and Kurt Russell in the drama based on the true story of the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded in April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst oil spill in United States' history."Masterminds,"PG-13: Jared Hess directs Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson in the comedy about a night guard at an armored car company in the southern who masterminds a bank heist."American Honey,"R: Andrea Arnold directs Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough and McCaul Lombardi in the drama about a teen girl who joins a traveling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in bad behavior."Denial,"PG-13: Mick Jackson directs Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson in the drama based on the true story about writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt who must prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel under the English legal system.Three Popcorn Boxes out of Five Popcorn Boxes