I use nfo files.
I recently moved all my movies to be under an alphabet folder (all the A's together, B's etc etc). In addition I removed and re-added then to radarr for this (which should have set the date/time to the 'In Cinema' date. My dates in emby are a bit of a mismatch. I understand the NFO's would have overidden the date stamps anyway.
Summary of where I want to be - the date added is the premiere date - just once - so the latest media for the Movies does not show really ol