{"id":313722,"date":"2026-02-23T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313722\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:58:07","slug":"courtney-loves-documentary-gets-a-recut-despite-sundance-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313722\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Love\u2019s Documentary Gets a Recut Despite Sundance Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere\u2019s a moment in Courtney Love<\/a>\u2019s new documentary, Antiheroine, when she declares that \u201cno one gets to tell my story but me.\u201d Apparently, though, that story remains very much a work in progress.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe doc \u2014 a candid stroll through her tumultuous life, from marriage to Kurt Cobain and their shared heroin addictions to tabloid infamy, sobriety and the mounting of what she describes as a final album \u2014 premiered at Sundance<\/a> to rave reviews. \u201cAn overdue reaffirmation of Love\u2019s place in rock history,\u201d gushed THR\u2019s David Rooney.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLove herself, however, was a surprise no-show at the Eccles. A rep said at the time she \u201ccouldn\u2019t make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWithin hours of the screening, though, Love surfaced in Los Angeles, checking in to the Chateau Marmont and wiping her Instagram before refilling it with a flurry of posts: a haircut with Sally Hershberger, dinner at Vespertine, a screening of Wuthering Heights at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Notably absent from her feed? Any promotion of the film that had just debuted in Park City.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, what exactly is going on? A source reveals to Rambling that Love has been telling friends she\u2019s unhappy with the movie and wants to recut it with new material, which is supposedly why she left her home in London and returned to L.A. But her manager \u2014 Crush founder Jonathan Daniel \u2014 disputes that framing. \u201cThe cut that went to Sundance was never intended as final,\u201d he insists. \u201cIt\u2019s actually the first edit of the film. We were surprised and flattered that they wanted to screen it, so we approved it being shown even though it was not finished.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAll of which leaves Antiheroine in the unusual position of being both a Sundance hit and, apparently, a rough cut. \u201cCourtney will always be unfiltered and may speak out of turn,\u201d Daniel says, \u201cbut I can assure you she\u2019s dedicated to finishing the doc and then promoting it when it\u2019s out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in Rambling Reporter:<\/p>\n

\n\tSheriff Chris Nanos <\/a>doesn\u2019t just run the police department investigating Nancy Guthrie\u2019s disappearance \u2014 he\u2019s the brains behind A&E\u2019s reality cop show \u2018Desert Law.\u2019 And a thorn in the side of right-wing media.<\/p>\n

\n\tA look at the one luxury indulgence Jeffrey Epstein was never able to acquire: his own Imax theater.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the Feb. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a moment in Courtney Love\u2019s new documentary, Antiheroine, when she declares that \u201cno one gets to tell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40225,93,61,60,270,22221],"class_list":["post-313722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-courtney-love","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-sundance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}