Movie rental not available on iTunes

I tried renting 300 from iTunes but it says the movie is not currently available even though they are promoting that it is. are there limits to how many versions of the movie they have for rental? i don't get it and don't see any mention anywhere from Apple that this issue would occur.

Movies cannot be re-downloaded in the same way that music, apps, and TV shows can via iCloud from the iTunes store. Usually you have to jump through a couple of hoops to transfer a rental item from the computer to an iOS device; I'd suggest you just rent it where you actually will be watching it to save yourself some extra steps.

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