Exhibit 5.1 [JENKENS & GILCHRIST PARKER CHAPIN LLP LETTERHEAD] June 21, 2001 Detour Media Group, Inc. 7060 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 1150 Los Angeles, CA 90038 RE: DETOUR MEDIA GROUP, INC. ---------------------------- Dear Sir or Madam: We have acted as counsel to Detour Media Group, Inc., a Colorado corporation (the "Company"), in connection with its filing of a registration statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), relating to an offering of up to 500,000 shares of common stock, par value $.0001 per share (the "Common Stock"), to consultants to the Company or any parent or subsidiary of the Company upon the exercise of options granted by the Company under the Consulting Agreement, dated May 23, 2001, entered into by the Company and Hyperion Holdings, L.L.C. (the "Plan"). In our capacity as counsel to the Company, we have examined originals or copies, satisfactory to us, of the Company's (i) Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, (ii) By-laws, as amended and (iii) resolutions of the Company's board of directors relating to the Plan. We have also reviewed such other matters of law and examined and relied upon all such corporate records, agreements, certificates and other documents as we have deemed relevant and necessary as a basis for the opinion hereinafter expressed. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity with the original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies or facsimiles. As to any facts material to such opinion, we have, to the extent that relevant facts were not independently established by us, relied on certificates of public officials and certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company. Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the shares of the Company's Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the exercise of options granted under the Plan, when issued pursuant to the provisions of the Plan, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable. We hereby consent to the use of our name under the caption "Legal Matters" in the prospectus constituting a part of the Registration Statement and to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act, the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder or Item 509 of Regulation S-B promulgated under the Act. Very truly yours, /s/JENKENS & GILCHRIST PARKER CHAPIN LLP ---------------------------------------- JENKENS & GILCHRIST PARKER CHAPIN LLP