Sigourney Weaver got a 2,757% pay raise for the sequel “Aliens”.

Fox was considering another female actor for part 2 but Cameron was armed with his recent success of “The Terminator”. He and his wife, Gale, used this leverage to not only secure Sigourney for the lead role…she went from being paid $35,000 for part 1 to a whopping $1 million dollars plus a percentage of the sequel’s profits. Oh yeah, she went on to make $4-mil for “Alien 3” and $11-mil. for “Alien: Resurrection”.