IMovie freezing at Thumbnails each time

Everytime I open up IMovie, it gets stuck at Generating Thumbnails and never gets done. I've even left it alone for over 24 hours. Even if I close it out and restart the computer, as soon as IMovie starts it goes to generating thumbnails and gets stuck. What should I do?
Thanks
Annmarie

jay, I think I've worked this out but it's taken me a while.
I had the same problem in that each time I've attempted to open iMovie I was met with the 'generating thumbnails' message, every time, and a freeze for up to two hours. Bloody annoying!! So after trial and error here's what I did and iMovie has now opened for the first time in three days.
1. opened movies/iMovie/iMovieevents and iMovieprojects and removed all films to the desktop - I had about eight folders. Leave the folders but no films in there.
2. I then opened my library folder and opened preferences folder
3. I removed all 'com.apple.imovie.plist' files to the desktop - this didn't make much difference but do it anyway.
4. I then looked through the folder for missed files and found a something called 'com.apple.iMovieApp.p.list.lockfile' and removed it to the desktop.
5. launched iMovie and it worked immediately! Voila!
I've spent a few hours editing and iMovie opening and closing no problem. I just checked that the films I removed to the desktop are all in the events library and they are and are working no problem.
Hope that helps!

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