Itunes movies not playing..

Suddenly certain movies, purchased from the iTunes store, don't play anymore.  When I double click on them, it goes to a black screen with no sound.  I've already tried reinstalling iTunes, but no luck.  Strangely, this only occurs with some of my movies: Watchmen, Patriot Games, In Clear and Present Danger.  My other movies are still playing fine.  Anyone else have this problem?

I got it to work. I have the old Apple TV and the movies worked on that. I tried opening FrontRow on my laptop and the movie still wouldn't play. Instead of black the screen was gray. I couldn't get out of FrontRow so I did a Force Quit and the authorization message appeared saying that the computer wasn't authorized to play the movie and so I think I entered a password to authorize and now the movies play. Very strange.

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