Distribution
The cinema film was distributed by Kommunenes Filmcentral in Norway and New World Pictures internationally. The film received a 16-year rating in Norway and Finland, and a 15-year rating in Sweden. In the United Kingdom and the United States it received Parental Guidance. Orion's Belt premiered on 8 February 1985 in eight cinemas in seven Norwegian cities. In Norway, 700,000 people saw the film at the cinema, grossing NOK 14,172,994 in Norway and slightly less than NOK 3 million abroad. A third version of the film was made retrospectively, aimed at the American cinema market. It was a dubbed version of the Norwegian recording, but had a slightly different ending.
The first DVD version was launched in 2004. The issue was criticized for not removing film grain and for cropping the image to 4:3 instead of 16:9. It further did not feature improvements to the sound and was available only in stereo. Subtitles were absent, despite that some lines of Norwegian-language film were in English. It did not include bonus material, the English-language version or the alternative ending. On 21 September 2005, Norsk Film published an all-new DVD-version. The film was cleaned up and shown in widescreen, with the audio being digitally remastered and presented in Dolby 5.1 and DTS. Bonus material included in the release included the full English-version, a 40-minute documentary on the production, two commentary tracks and new interviews with the main contributors.
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