FINALLY

Trojan host: Will Ferrell (Class of 1989) will host a Sept. 26 gala celebrating the 75th anniversary of the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Movie deal: At a cost of more than $1 million, Scott Steindorff’s Stone Village Pictures has acquired the film rights to “Love in the Time of Cholera,” the acclaimed 1985 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.