Johnson for years has been a vocal foe of what he calls studios' opaque and deceptive accounting practices designed to keep pay from talent. "The studios are monolithic and in it to make money," he said. "We're taking square aim at their anticompetitive practices."
In 2015 he scored a $28 million settlement in a class action pitting the late director Colin Higgins' estate as lead plaintiff against Universal Studios. Five similar cases are in pro...
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