Clip of Michael Jackson’s final concert rehearsal.

Michael Jackson’s autopsy is officially completed and the results are in, however the LAPD has asked the L.A. Coroner’s office not to release them, and instead to place them under a security hold. Apparently they don’t want the results – or at least the release of the results – to interfere with their exhaustive and lengthy investigation. I say the “release” of the results because I assume the results are still known to the LAPD, however no articles actually specify one way or the other.

More than six weeks after Michael Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office announced on Monday that it had completed an autopsy on the singer that details his cause of death. Those results, however, are being withheld indefinitely to allow police to complete their investigation, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“The investigation was thorough and comprehensive,” a coroner’s official explained in a news release. But in order to avoid interfering with the ongoing criminal probe by the Los Angeles Police Department into what might have killed the 50-year-old singer, the office will honor the LAPD’s request to put the results on a “security hold.”

Quoting an unnamed police source, TMZ reported that the LAPD doesn’t want the autopsy released, because it could hamper their ongoing investigation. In a statement released on Monday, the police department said its investigation “has included dozens of individual interviews and the service of search warrants locally and out of-state.”

[From MTV]

Obviously the coroner’s results play a big part in their investigation; the police just don’t want the information to be released to the media yet. Though with such a high profile case, it’s hard to imagine they’ll stay under wraps for long.

In related news, a Michael Jackson movie is coming out in the fall. It’ll feature video footage from his concert rehearsals and some interviews with his friends and associates. And parts of it will be in 3-D.

Hours after a judge in Los Angeles approved a deal for a movie using footage of Michael Jackson’s concert rehearsals, Sony announced that the film, “This Is It,” would be released on Oct. 30 in theaters around the world. Named after Mr. Jackson’s planned 50-date engagement in London, the film is to include scenes of him rehearsing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, along with a career retrospective and interviews with friends and collaborators, and parts of it will be in 3-D, the announcement said. Sony paid $60 million to make the film, part of a deal involving the studio, the Jackson estate and AEG Live, the concert promoter that shot the rehearsals.

[From the New York Times]

Michael was obviously taking his rehearsals a lot more seriously than most of us realized. Due to his anxiety over the last several years he hasn’t performed – or even been seen much in public. A lot of people – myself included – speculated the concerts would never really happen. But he was working strenuously on her performances, and the little clips we’ve seen make it look like it would have been a great show. It’s nice we’ll still be able to get some idea of how the concert would have come together.

Jermaine Jackson is working on a concert tribute to Michael, which is supposed to take place in Vienna. It sounds like it’ll basically be the same thing as his funeral, just on another concert.

Better start booking your ticket to Vienna if you want to be a part of a high-profile tribute to Michael Jackson, planned for the end of September at the city’s Schoenbrunn Palace. Jermaine Jackson is inviting artists to perform in front of what organizers expect to be a huge crowd — around 85,000 fans. “The concept of The Tribute is that some of the world’s leading artists will perform Michael Jackson’s greatest hits live on stage in an imperial setting, befitting the King of Pop,” producers World Awards Media said on its website.

“I have invited many of the most acclaimed talents of our time,” Jermaine Jackson said on the website promoting the concert, “and many have already confirmed to perform in honor of my beloved brother, adding that he wants this to be the first of many charity concerts in his brother’s name.

“I want to make people aware of the humanitarian side of Michael,” he said. “I want to show them how his true emphasis wasn’t music, or performing; it was improving the world. Understand this, and you begin to understand the essence of who my brother was.”

[From OK!]

Honestly I think this sounds sort of unnecessary, and there is the potential for some serious oversaturation here. There’s a fine line between honoring Michael’s memory and cheesing it out. Yeah, he was larger than life and all that, but a film of his rehearsals coupled with possibly multiple concerts honoring him could make the average person pretty tired of him. And that taints his legacy more than honors it. Obviously hardcore fans will love it, but everyone else is going to think the Jackson family is just trying to stretch out Michael’s estate as long as possible.

In slightly more peaceful news, the King of Pop has a final resting place. According to Glamour UK (a slightly questionable source, so grain of salt and all that), Michael’s been placed in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood.