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Joe Jackson says that Michael is making a bigger impact than ever since his June death from an apparent drug overdose.

"He's worth more dead than when he was alive," Joe, 80, tells "Extra" in an interview that airs Thursday night. "I'd rather have him alive."

As Michael's movie "This Is It" rakes in $2.2 million in the box office, Joe adds, "When he was living, they didn't show this."

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"Extra" is with the choreographer and musical director from "This Is It" to talk about Michael Jackson's labor of love -- and what it was like to be with the King of Pop every step of the way.

Facts about Michael JacksonForce in Music

Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana. The youngest of five brothers, Michael showed a passion for performing at an early age — and at 11 in 1969, he and the...

Michael Jackson's "This Is It" hits theatres in just one week -- and director Kenny Ortega dishes with "Extra" about how the King of Pop was involved of every aspect of the rehearsals -- and shares footage from the highly anticipated flick.

Facts about Michael JacksonForce in Music

Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana. The youngest of five brothers, Michael showed a passion for performing at an early age — and at...

Funeral attended by 200 relatives and friends; Joe Jackson and the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke at service.

By Gil Kaufman

Michael Jackson's casket at the Great Mausoleum at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles on Thursday

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Nearly two months after Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, provided a dramatic denouement to the late pop star's public memorial at the Staples Center by expressing her enduring devotion for the singer, Jackson's children again took center stage on Thursday night at their father's funeral.

As more than 200 family and close friends looked on, Jackson's three children — Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, 7 — opened the solemn ceremony by placing a golden crown on the gilded casket of the self-proclaimed King of Pop.

Friends & Family Say Goodbye To Mj

Though the funeral just outside the Great Mausoleum at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles was closed to the media and public,...

I don't know what to say... two pop culture icons lost in one day. I was leaving for the movies when I first heard the news (then but a rumor) so I'm just catching up now. Like many pop stars Michael Jackson wanted to be in movies and the Peter Pan obsession in particular was one he never shied away from expressing. His Steven Spielberg / Peter Pan project never happened -- well it did but without songs and without Michael Jackson and in a different form altogether -- and neither did the movies. But, like Madonna, he was a mammoth small screen star by way of the music video.

And a mammoth star in general.

I can't say that I was ever a big fan and the sordid tabloid problems turned me off as much as anyone but it was hard to live through the 70s or 80s without having some connection to his work.