EXHIBIT 5.1


                                                                7777 GLADES ROAD
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                                 March 31, 2004

Hollywood Media Corp.
2255 Glades Road, Suite 221-A
Boca Raton, Florida 33431


         Re:      Hollywood Media Corp. (the "Company")
                  Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended
                  (File No. 333-113531)


Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We have acted as counsel to the Company with respect to the preparation
and filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the accompanying
Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (the "Registration Statement"),
pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). You
have requested our opinion with respect to the 6,180,901 shares (the "Shares")
of the Company's common stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock"),
issued by the Company and 1,732,006 shares of Common Stock (the "Warrant
Shares") issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued by the Company (the
"Warrants"), both as described in the Registration Statement.

         As counsel to the Company, we have examined the original or certified
copies of such records of the Company, and such agreements, certificates of
public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of the Company
and others, and such other documents as we may deem relevant and necessary for
the opinion expressed in this opinion letter. In such examination, we have
assumed the genuineness of all signatures on original documents, and the
conformity to original documents of all copies submitted to us as conformed or
photostatic copies. As to various questions of fact material to such opinion, we
have relied upon statements or certificates of officials and representatives of
the Company and others.

         Based on, and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the
Shares have been legally issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and that
when issued in accordance with the terms of the Warrants, the Warrant Shares
will have been legally issued and will be fully paid and nonassessable.





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         The opinion expressed herein is based on Florida law, including the
statutes and constitution of the State of Florida as in existence on the date
hereof and the reported judicial decisions interpreting such statutes and
constitution.

         In rendering this opinion, we advise you that members of this Firm are
members of the Bar of the State of Florida, and we express no opinion herein
concerning the applicability or effect of any laws of any other jurisdiction,
except the securities laws of the United States of America referred to herein.

         We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to
the Registration Statement. We also consent to the use of our name under the
caption "Legal Matters" in the prospectus constituting part of the Registration
Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are included
within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the
Securities Act, or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.


                                     Very truly yours,


                                     /s/ Broad and Cassel


                                     BROAD AND CASSEL