[LETTERHEAD OF ONLINE PRODUCTION SERVICES INC.]


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Exhibit 5.1

                ONPS Completes Acquisition of Talent Bridge Group
               Michael Edwards Appointed to the Board of Directors
                      Shareholder Loans Converted to Shares

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                           JANUARY 26, 2001

Vancouver, British Columbia. Aerock Fox, Chairman of OnLine Production Services
Inc. (the "Company"), is pleased to announce, on behalf of the Board of
Directors of the Company, that, further to the press release issued on January
12, 2001, the completion of the acquisition of the Talent Bridge group of
companies including Talent Bridge International LLC ("TBI"), a Nevada
corporation, Talent Bridge International Inc. ("TBI BC"), a British Columbia
company, Bookedbyus.com Ltd. ("BBU") and Monarch Software Inc. ("Monarch"). As
consideration for the acquisition of these companies, the Company has issued
13,004,677 Class A Common Stock shares of the Company to Michael Edwards and
parties related to him. Michael Edwards has been appointed to the Board of
Directors of the Company and as its Chief Executive Officer. Terry Roycroft has
resigned as a director and officer of the Company.

The Talent Bridge group of companies are engaged in the business of developing,
marketing and implementing automated booking solutions for the live music and
entertainment industry and is in the business of developing and marketing
database applications and solutions for the entertainment industry employing
advanced transactional database technologies.

In addition, the Company is pleased to announce that Fox Productions Inc. and
Snow Lion Entertainment Group (Canada) Inc., both shareholders of the Company,
have agreed to forgive US$268,723 and US$81,743 respectively of shareholder
loans to the Company in return for the issuance of 3,838,899 and 1,167,763 Class
A Common Stock shares of the Company respectively.

The Company carries on the business of providing a suite of online and offline
software solutions for the casting and production aspects of the film,
television and entertainment industries. The Company is listed for trading on
the NASD OTC Bulletin Board under the trading symbol ONPS. For more information
on the Company please visit our web site at www.onps.com or call the Company at
604-205-5107.





                [LETTERHEAD OF ONLINE PRODUCTION SERVICES INC.]


                                                                    NEWS RELEASE

Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Legislation Reform Act
of 1966, such as elements relating to financial results and plans for future
business development activities and are thus prospective.