In the Black

Last week, Outtakes reported that ITC/Showtime was filming “Rainbow Drive” downtown at the abandoned Herald-Examiner building. It turns out that’s just one of many shoots lined up at the 11th and Broadway facility. A source with the Hearst Corp. tells us the company is raking in as much as $100,000 a day renting out space and backdrops to film and television crews.

This week, Clint Eastwood will rage through the venerable building as he films his upcoming Warner Bros. release “The Rookie.” Since January, TV crews have been busy there on such programs as Fox’s “Alien Nation,” NBC’s “Mancuso, F.B.I.,” the ABC pilot of “K-9” and NBC’s “Shannon’s Deal.”

Commercials for IBM computers, AT&T; long distance and Cover Girl cosmetics have also used the premises recently.

Income has been high because the building and adjacent lots are sometimes leased to three or four production companies a day.

“The Herald is now profitable as a movie set,” says the source, “while it wasn’t as a newspaper.”