IMovie not responding on launch

iMovie is hanging on launch. I get the application pane at the top of the screen but nothing ever loads. I have to force quit every time.
I've already tried to go the route of :
user/Library/Preferences remove a file called com.apple.iMovie(x).plist
This worked as far as allowing iMovie to launch but then when I try to open a project, it hangs again and does not respond further. I've just deleted the app entirely and I'm redownloading/installing. Has anyone else run into this? I'm using the latest version of iMovie.

I spoke too soon. It just froze on me again. This time I had to repair disk permissions and delete com.apple.iMovie(x).plist to get it to launch and it's currently hung on trying to open an iMovie event. What's with this thing?

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