The Colorado Economic Development Commission on Wednesday approved $8.5 million of state tax incentives to three companies that plan to add 647 new jobs in the state.

It also gave a thumbs-up to rebate requests worth $1.1 million for four films and one video game project that plan to spend $5.3 million in the state.

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions, a U.S. subsidiary of the German conglomerate, received approval for a $1.29 million award from the state’s strategic fund, matching an amount pledged by south Denver governments in incentives.

ThyssenKrupp plans to add 257 engineering and project-management-related jobs to the 150 employees it now has at its Greenwood Village office. Those new jobs will pay an average wage of $108,537.

The company, which is benefiting from the region’s robust oil and gas activity, also considered Georgia, Pennsylvania and Texas for the expansion.

An unnamed tech startup focused on mobile coupons received approval for $3.3 million in job growth incentive tax credits in return for adding 181 positions in Denver vs. Austin, Texas, or Tempe, Ariz. Those jobs will come with an average wage of $79,254.

A Boulder provider of cloud data storage systems received approval for $5.6 million in job growth incentive tax credits should it follow through with plans to create 209 jobs paying an average wage of $115,321.

Of the five film incentive requests, the largest, worth $763,953, came from Cloud Imperium Games Corp., which plans to spend $3.8 million with a Denver video game developer for a game called “Star Citizen.”

A low-budget science fiction film called “Star Raiders” was approved for $51,391 in rebates and an 18-episode video series based on Texas Pastor Max Lucado’s book “Traveling Light” received $37,000 of rebates.

A documentary on the state’s national parks was approved for $89,016 in spending rebates, while a documentary on Denver’s Holly Square neighborhood by author and journalist Julian Rubinstein received $110,218 of rebates.

A $1.5 million rebate the commission approved in May for Cinelou Films for a full-length feature starring Ashton Kutcher called the “The Violent Separation of Flesh and Blood” came back into the pot.

The film, the most high-profile backed by the commission so far, appears to have run into funding problems, said Lauren Grimshaw, the state’s deputy film commissioner.

Aldo Svaldi: 303-954-1410, asvaldi@denverpost.com or twitter.com/aldosvaldi