Sharing iMovie project

I have create a project in iMovie and am attempting to share to the theater. The share icon when clicked does nothing. And when I select share in the drop down menu, it's an option (it's in bold) but their are no options appearing from the arrow.
There used to be a finalize project step you had to go through, but this doesn't appear either. The specific project I am trying to share is "selected" (has a yellow box around it) but I am getting no where in finalziing and share.
Thanks!

Kirk, I did have to remove mackeeper, but this alone did not solve the problem. I also had to remove and reinstall imovie. Thank you for your help.

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