ITunes movie download issues

Bought "Prometheus" downloaded watched for a few minutes, then paused and updated to iOS 6.  Went to watch Prometheus again and it was nowhere to be found.  Tried to download again, but there was no space, deleted 3.8 GB worth of space to download and tried to download again.  Download began, pressed pause and resume, and it didn't start again.  Stopped it and deleted the download to try again, however there was no disks pace left.  Searched for Prometheus in the ipad search menu, click on it and page flashes back to ipad home screen.  Can anyone help?  Movie won't work, but is taking up disks pace, doesn't show up in videos but I can't delete anymore apps to try to download again, pretty frustrated.  Thanks!

This is a user to user forum not Apple support.
I've seen some odd behaviour in recent months - movies say they're downloading but are not or have slowed to a crawl.  I usually find restarting the unit and selecting it from the rented area kicks off the download again.
If you continue to have issues go to:
https://expresslane.apple.com
navigate to iTunes support and raise a support query.
AC

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