MBP chimes but doesn't start

I updated my MBP and was in the middle of a project in iMovie, left for a bit and comp went to sleep. Turned it back on only to have the rainbow wheel spinning for a long time. Shut down the comp and tried to restart it.... I get the power up chime, apple logo, grey spinning wheel, and progress bar..... Then it's shuts down. Tried a safe boot but doesn't work. Any advice would be appreciated.

This may or may not work. 
Try starting your MBP with thw OPTION key down.  This should result in a display with 2 HDD icons.  Select the recovery icon, on the right.  There will be a 4 option menu.  Select Disk Utility.  Then select Disk Utility>First Aid and run Verify and Repair.  Then if successful, restart your MBP.
If you cannot get to the inital display, indicate if your MBP came with installation discs or get the serial number from the bottom and enter it here:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
Post back with the information or results.
Ciao.

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