Itunes movie rental on iPhone. Expired but continues to download.

I downloaded a movie on my iphone through iTunes. I was able to successfully watch the movie. 48 hours later the movie rental expired, yet itunes continues to try and re-download the movie. I've watched the download process a few times. It downloads the whole file (1.5GB), moves on to processing and then there is an error message that it is unable to connect to iTunes.
How do I remove this movie from the download queue?
Thanks,

If you rent it on your iPhone then it will download onto your phone, films from iTunes aren't streamed.
For rentals you have 30 days to watch it, but once you start watching it (even if you only watch one second) you then have 24 hours if you are in the US, 48 hours elsewhere, to finish watching it before it expires.

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