{"id":441609,"date":"2026-01-29T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:08:09","slug":"mystery-as-courtney-love-snubs-her-own-sundance-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441609\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery as Courtney Love snubs her own Sundance premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be shocking for a star not to show up to the Sundance premiere of their own movie at the famed film fest\u2026 perhaps unless that star is Courtney Love.<\/p>\n<p>Scribe Allen Salkin was on the scene when the Hole rocker ghosted her own premiere.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48191027;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8718165\" width=\"874\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kurt-cobain-courtney-love-pose-119914457.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Cobain grimacing next to Courtney Love who is waving\" class=\"wp-image-8718165\"  \/>Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love at the Hollywood Palladium on Dec. 4, 1992. Lindsay Brice<\/p>\n<p>He wrote to us on Tuesday night in a mountain dispatch to Hollywood:<\/p>\n<p>Love was expected by many fans to show up to the Sundance premiere of her new documentary, \u201cAntiheroine.\u201d But when festival director Eugene Hernandez came out to introduce the film late Tuesday night in Park City, he quickly informed about 1,000 people in attendance that Love would not be at the screening.<\/p>\n<p>But there was more quiet shock at this news than voluble groans, since Love, as the documentary shows, is consistently inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8718166\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/119914487.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white portrait of a woman with light hair, looking forward and smiling slightly.\" class=\"wp-image-8718166\"  \/>Courtney Love was a no-show at her own Sundance premiere.  Edward Lovelace<\/p>\n<p>That said, it was clear the producers and marketers of \u201cAntiheroine\u201d did not want to explain Love\u2019s absence<\/p>\n<p>The documentary\u2026 had been made with Love\u2019s full cooperation and input. During the Q&amp; A after the film, no audience questions were taken despite the usual practice of having a festival official ask filmmakers a few, and then allowing the crowd to chime in.<\/p>\n<p>Salkin also told P6H: \u201cWhen the lights came up, I caught up with one of the publicists and asked, \u2018Why isn\u2019t Courtney here?\u2019 The publicist answered, \u2018Because she\u2019s not here.\u2019 \u2018Is that it?\u2019 I asked. \u2018Yes that\u2019s it,&#8217;\u201d the flack told the journo in a non-explanation rivaling Pee-Wee Herman\u2019s customary, \u201cI know you are, but what am I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Hole rocker\u2019s absence, the many Love fans in the audience expressed their affection when they were invited by Hernandez to appear in a video he said he\u2019d send her, including a lot of, \u2018We love you Courtneys!\u2019 shouted from the crowd, and fingers lifted and curled into the shape of hearts.<\/p>\n<p>It was said to be the last premiere of a film ever to be shown at Eccles Theatre during Sundance before the fest relocates to Boulder.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Allen! 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