The second round of offers for all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery are in from Paramount Skydance , Netflix and Comcast . And the new, higher offer for all of WBD from David Ellison’s Paramount is backed in part by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, sources tell Variety .

The dollar amounts of the higher bids submitted Dec. 1 from Paramount Skydance (which wants to buy all of Warner Bros. Discovery) or from Netflix and Comcast (which want only the Warner Bros. studios and streaming business, and not WBD’s linear TV assets) could not be learned. Paramount’s latest all-cash offer is still mostly backed by the Ellison family (that is, Oracle co-founder and billionaire Larry Ellison) and includes financing from RedBird Capital, Apollo Global Managemen

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